Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
SINCLAIR LEWISCuriously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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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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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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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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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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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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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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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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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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