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.
SINCLAIR LEWISWe’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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Most 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.
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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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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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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