But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
SINCLAIR LEWISOne quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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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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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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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