To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
SINCLAIR LEWISA man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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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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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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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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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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