I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
SINCLAIR LEWISIn other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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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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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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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’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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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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