If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
SINCLAIR LEWISSince dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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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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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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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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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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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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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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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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