I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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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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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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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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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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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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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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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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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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