Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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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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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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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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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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