What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
SINCLAIR LEWISDamn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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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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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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