If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
SINCLAIR LEWISI must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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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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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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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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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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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