The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
SINCLAIR LEWISWhat are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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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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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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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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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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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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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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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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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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