Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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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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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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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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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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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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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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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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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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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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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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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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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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