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.
SINCLAIR LEWISLove is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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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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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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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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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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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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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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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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