So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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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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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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