There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
SINCLAIR LEWISThat nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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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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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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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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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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You have more people that love you than you know.
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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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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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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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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