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 LEWISLove is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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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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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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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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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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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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