Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
SINCLAIR LEWISIf there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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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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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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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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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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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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