Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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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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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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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.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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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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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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I love America, but I don’t like 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 that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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