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.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt 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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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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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