My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
SINCLAIR LEWISShe was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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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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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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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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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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