NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
SINCLAIR LEWISHe who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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