My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
SINCLAIR LEWISThat nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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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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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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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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You have more people that love you than you know.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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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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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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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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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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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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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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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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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