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.
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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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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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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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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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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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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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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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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