Arrowsmith

“It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.””

— Sinclair Lewis

“I was feeling rational and restless, which is horrible for watching movies””

— Sinclair Lewis

“They decided now, talking it over in their tight little two-and-quarter room flat, that most people who call themselves 'truth seekers' - persons who scurry about chattering of Truth as though it were a tangible seperable thing, like houses or salt or bread - did not so much desire to find Truth as to cure their mental itch. In novels, these truth-seekers quested the 'secret of life' in laboratories which did not seem to be provided wtih Bunsen flames or reagents; or they went, at great expense and much discomfort from hot trains and undesirable snakes, to Himalayan monasteries, to learn from unaseptic sages that the Mind can do all sorts of edifying things if one will but spend thirty or forty years in eating rice and gazing on one's navel.To these high matters Martin responded, 'Rot!' He insisted that there is no Truth but only many truths; that Truth is not a colored bird to be chased among the rocks and captured by its tail, but a skeptical attitude toward life. (260)””

— Sinclair Lewis

“Like all males, he hated to confess ignorance by asking directions,””

— Sinclair Lewis

“He was permitted, without restriction, to speak of himself as immoral, agnostic and socialistic, so long as it was universally known that he remained pure, Presbyterian, and Republican.””

— Sinclair Lewis

“Sandy, you have to stumble every so often; have to learn by making mistakes.””

— Sinclair Lewis

“She knows all about lite’ature except maybe how to read. .””

— Sinclair Lewis

“With all his amateurish fumbling, Martin had one characteristic without which there can be no science: a wide-ranging, sniffing, snuffling, undignified, unselfdramatizing curiosity, and it drove him on.””

— Sinclair Lewis

“This was infuriating, because none of their rights as American citizens was better established, or more often used, than the privilege of being ill.””

— Sinclair Lewis