She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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Indians, 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.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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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 have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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