I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
SINCLAIR LEWISI can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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He 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.
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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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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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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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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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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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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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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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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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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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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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