I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
SINCLAIR LEWISThink of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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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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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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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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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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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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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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