God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
SINCLAIR LEWISI am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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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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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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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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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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