if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
SINCLAIR LEWISThere are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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Damn 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.
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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.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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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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