The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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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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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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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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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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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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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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