It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
SINCLAIR LEWISI think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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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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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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