Quote #122

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, 'The trouble with this country is...'

More from Sinclair Lewis

  1. The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
  2. 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…
  3. Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
  4. There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has ne…
  5. People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'
  6. We have the power to bore people long after we are dead.
  7. Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
  8. Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

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