You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
SINCLAIR LEWISBut the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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 world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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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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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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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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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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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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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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