In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
SINCLAIR LEWISYou’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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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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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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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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