He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
SINCLAIR LEWISA sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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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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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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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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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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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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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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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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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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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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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