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.
SINCLAIR LEWISI have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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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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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 is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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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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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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