10 great quotes by sinclair lewis
- It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
- 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.
- There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
- It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
- It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
- You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
- Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
- Thus it came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself.
- If travel were so inspiring and informing a business…then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers, Pullman porters, and Mormon missionaries.
- 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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