Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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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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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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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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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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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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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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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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