Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
SINCLAIR LEWISIn fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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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.
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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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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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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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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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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