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.
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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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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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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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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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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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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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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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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