She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
SINCLAIR LEWISCuriously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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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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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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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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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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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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In 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.
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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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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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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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