Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
SINCLAIR LEWISOur American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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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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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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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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