Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
SINCLAIR LEWISIntellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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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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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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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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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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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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As 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.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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