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!
SINCLAIR LEWISI was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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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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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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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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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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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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