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 LEWISSo much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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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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