Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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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 game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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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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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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