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.
SINCLAIR LEWISEvery compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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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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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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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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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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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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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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