In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
SINCLAIR LEWISThere is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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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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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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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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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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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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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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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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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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