Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
SINCLAIR LEWISIntellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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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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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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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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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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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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