Quote #126
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
More from Sinclair Lewis
- We have the power to bore people long after we are dead.
- 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.
- 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…
- When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
- 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…
- Winter is not a season, it's an occupation..
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- I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot. ~ George Bernard Shaw on Sinclair Lewis receiving the Nobel …