She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
SINCLAIR LEWISSo much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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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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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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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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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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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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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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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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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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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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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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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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