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?
SINCLAIR LEWISI have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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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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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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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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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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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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