Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
SINCLAIR LEWISHe 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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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A 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.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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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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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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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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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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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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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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