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 LEWISOn the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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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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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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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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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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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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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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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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