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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.

Sinclair Lewis

Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Better Criticize Custom Love Much Think Yourself
When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Divine Doom Grace Hell Most Rose Think When
Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Amn Another Been Civilized Completely Ever Known never Nobody Possible Thousand Year
Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Always Fiction Funny Much Need Opera Praise Pray Shoemaker Singer So Strive War Well World
It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Any Belive Error Living Need Religion Seem Think Worth
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!
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Cloud Evening Firmannent Glad God Illuminate Make Marvelous Morning Refulgence Uplift
Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Discontent Facilities Happy Learn Make Most Other Tarin Trouble Work
I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Drink Exactly Now Revolution Want
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Better Country Intellectual Know Other
Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Dictate Just No Pen Secret Toe Type Use Work Write Writeing
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Anything Buy Customer One People
She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Detail Dis Mind never Quit Reves She Throughness Understand Work
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.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Brown Change Content Event Object Pocket Sensational Suit Warn
Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Achievement Citizen Come Dozen Each Easy Except Half Ignorance Proud Town
An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Bondage Business Church Doctrine Down Lot Millionaire Much Too
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.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Cathedral Little One Seem Something Spent Time

I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.

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