Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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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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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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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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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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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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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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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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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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