Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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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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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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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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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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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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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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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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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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