It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
SINCLAIR LEWISWhen audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
SINCLAIR LEWISI, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
SINCLAIR LEWISGood 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 LEWISExcept for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
SINCLAIR LEWISShe was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
SINCLAIR LEWISYou’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
SINCLAIR LEWISI 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
SINCLAIR LEWISThink of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
SINCLAIR LEWISThink how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
SINCLAIR LEWISShe did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
SINCLAIR LEWISIndians, 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.
SINCLAIR LEWISWe’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
SINCLAIR LEWISDamn 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.
SINCLAIR LEWISVast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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