Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
SINCLAIR LEWISThe middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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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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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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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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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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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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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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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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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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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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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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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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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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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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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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