It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
SINCLAIR LEWISTo a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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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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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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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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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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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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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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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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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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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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