You have more people that love you than you know.
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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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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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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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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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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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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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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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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