Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
SINCLAIR LEWISIntellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
SINCLAIR LEWISFortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
SINCLAIR LEWISWhat are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
SINCLAIR LEWISNOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
SINCLAIR LEWISI, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
SINCLAIR LEWISMy objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
SINCLAIR LEWISAnd that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
SINCLAIR LEWISEvery compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
SINCLAIR LEWISHe 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 LEWISWinter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
SINCLAIR LEWISMost of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
SINCLAIR LEWISTo live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
SINCLAIR LEWISExcept for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
SINCLAIR LEWISUpon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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