I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
SINCLAIR LEWISWe’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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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 be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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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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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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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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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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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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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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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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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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