She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
SINCLAIR LEWISMy objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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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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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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