She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
SINCLAIR LEWISTo be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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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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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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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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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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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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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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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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