If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
SINCLAIR LEWISYou have more people that love you than you know.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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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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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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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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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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