I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
SINCLAIR LEWISFortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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To 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.
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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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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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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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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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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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