To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
SINCLAIR LEWISShe was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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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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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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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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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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