If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
SINCLAIR LEWISCure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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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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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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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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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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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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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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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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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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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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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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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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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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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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