What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
SINCLAIR LEWISUpon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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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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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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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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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Thus 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.
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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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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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