I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
SINCLAIR LEWISWinter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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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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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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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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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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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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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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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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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?
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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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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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