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.
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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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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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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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