You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
SINCLAIR LEWISI must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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