Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
SINCLAIR LEWISSince dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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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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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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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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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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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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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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