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.
SINCLAIR LEWISYou,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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 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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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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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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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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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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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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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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