Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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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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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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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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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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