And 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 LEWISNOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
-
-
What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
SINCLAIR LEWIS






