Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
SINCLAIR LEWISYou have more people that love you than you know.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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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 think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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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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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Good 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.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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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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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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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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