Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
SINCLAIR LEWISParis is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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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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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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