When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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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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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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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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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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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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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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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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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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