A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
SINCLAIR LEWISMost of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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