My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
SINCLAIR LEWISA man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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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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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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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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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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