If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
SINCLAIR LEWISWhat are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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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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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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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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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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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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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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