Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
SINCLAIR LEWISYou’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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Upon 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.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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