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.
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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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.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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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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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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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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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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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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