I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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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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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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