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.
SINCLAIR LEWISOur American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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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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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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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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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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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 middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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