Sinclair Lewis Short Quotes

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Like all ardent agnostics, Martin was a religious man.

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What is love? … It is the morning and the evening star.

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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.

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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.

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She was not a Respectable Married Woman but fully a human being.

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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.

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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.

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There had to be one man in town independent enough to sass the banker!

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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much - and like so well?

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There was much conversation, most of which sounded like the rest of it.

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We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.

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Elmer Gantry was drunk. He was eloquently drunk, lovingly and pugnaciously drunk.

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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

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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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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.

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I don't believe in fear of divine vengeance, and I do believe in justice and equality....

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It came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself.

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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.

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Good sense from a child was not necessarily contemptible beside foolishness from a grown-up.

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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.

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The outhouse was so overmodestly masked with vines and lattice that it was not concealed at all.

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He was born to be a senator. He never said anything important, and he always said it sonorously.

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Aaron was uncomfortable and a little afraid. This, he thought, is how God might pray to his God.

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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn't the initial cost, it's the humidity.

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He prayed, 'Lord God, let us be the kind of Christians that you would be if you were a Christian'.

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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

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Maybe he was not a good-enough Christian to get the proper zest out of mortifying his indolent flesh.

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She did her work with the thoroughness of mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.

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As they talked around the fire in the sitting-room, he was embarrassed by the nakedness of their piety.

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