Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
SINCLAIR LEWISIlluminating 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!
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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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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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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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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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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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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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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