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.
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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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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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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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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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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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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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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