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?
SINCLAIR LEWISWhatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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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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So 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!
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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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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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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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 cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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