There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
SINCLAIR LEWISWhat are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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 greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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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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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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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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