Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
SINCLAIR LEWISIt isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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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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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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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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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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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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