In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
SINCLAIR LEWISI love America, but I don’t like it.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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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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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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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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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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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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