The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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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.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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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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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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