Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
SINCLAIR LEWISSo that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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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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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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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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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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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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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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