There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
SINCLAIR LEWISYou have more people that love you than you know.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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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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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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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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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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