Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
SINCLAIR LEWISMy chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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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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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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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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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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