It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
SINCLAIR LEWISWhy is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
SINCLAIR LEWISWriters kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
SINCLAIR LEWISParis is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
SINCLAIR LEWISOne quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
SINCLAIR LEWISI love America, but I don’t like it.
SINCLAIR LEWISWriters have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
SINCLAIR LEWISOur American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
SINCLAIR LEWISIs it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
SINCLAIR LEWISIn fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
SINCLAIR LEWISCuriously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
SINCLAIR LEWISEmotionally I know she is better than every other country.
SINCLAIR LEWISWe’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
SINCLAIR LEWISThere 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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