Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
SINCLAIR LEWISIntellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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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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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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 audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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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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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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