What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
SINCLAIR LEWISWinter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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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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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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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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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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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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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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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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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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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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