I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
SINCLAIR LEWISI have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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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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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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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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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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