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.
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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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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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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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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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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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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