I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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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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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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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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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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