And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
SINCLAIR LEWISBeing a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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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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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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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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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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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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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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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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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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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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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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