My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
SINCLAIR LEWISNOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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I 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.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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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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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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