It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
SINCLAIR LEWISIndians, 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.
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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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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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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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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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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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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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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