God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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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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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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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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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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