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Sinclair Lewis Quotes

«When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.»
«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.»
«Winter is not a season, it's an occupation»
«Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every country»
«Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.»
«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»
«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»
«Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form»
Author: Sinclair Lewis (Writer) | Keywords: pugnacity
«There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble»
Author: Sinclair Lewis (Writer) | About: Insults | Keywords: insults
«Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.»
Author: Sinclair Lewis (Writer) | Keywords: orator, sage

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