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 LEWISIt is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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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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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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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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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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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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