If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
SINCLAIR LEWISYou’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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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.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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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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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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