Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
SINCLAIR LEWISAs 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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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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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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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