If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
SINCLAIR LEWISLove is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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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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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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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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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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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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