You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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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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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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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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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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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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