I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
SINCLAIR LEWISFortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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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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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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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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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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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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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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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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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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