I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
SINCLAIR LEWISGod has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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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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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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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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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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