Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
SINCLAIR LEWISParis is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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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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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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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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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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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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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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