Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
SINCLAIR LEWISBeing a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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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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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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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.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them 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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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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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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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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