Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
SINCLAIR LEWISMen die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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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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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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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 is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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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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