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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.

Sinclair Lewis

You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Earn Essential Immortal Morality Must Think Underneath
The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Being Contrive Four Greatest Hour Human Manner Mystery Praise Put Reaction Sex Twenty
Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Better Criticize Custom Love Much Think Yourself
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.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Apart Furious Hundred Interest Light Maker Personal Star Thousand Universe Year
Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Boredom Dull Good Know Live Lord Many People Philosopher Right Solution Unnecessarily
I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Curing Give Heard Malaria Patient Syphill
I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Conscious Die Drudging Life More Perhaps Sleep Think Tired
My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Actual Church Cruel Hypocritical Objective Peacher Some Them Through Wick
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.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Art Attic Booze Burn Businessmen Country Feeding Indistinguishable Left Literature Live Other Shabby Spaghetti Successful
Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Bible Dicate Explain Hire Minister Perfect Race Since
To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Artistic Dubious Highbrow Intellectual Lord Own Priggish Virtue
I love America, but I don’t like it.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Country Like Love
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
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Deliver Every Minister Presume Sermon Understand Week Why
Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Critical Given Gossip Protect Sensitiveness Unhappy Women
The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Country Many People Say Trouble
When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Come Country Fascism Flag Wrap

Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.

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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.

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