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!
SINCLAIR LEWISWhat are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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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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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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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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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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