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.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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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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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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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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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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