On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
SINCLAIR LEWISIlluminating 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!
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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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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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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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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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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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