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 LEWISThere 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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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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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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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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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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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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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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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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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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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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!
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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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 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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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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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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