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!
SINCLAIR LEWISShe did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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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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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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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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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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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 did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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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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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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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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