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.
SINCLAIR LEWISThus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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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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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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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.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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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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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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