It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
SINCLAIR LEWISThink of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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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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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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