But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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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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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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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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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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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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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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