She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
SINCLAIR LEWISMy chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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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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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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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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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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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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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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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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