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.
SINCLAIR LEWISCuriously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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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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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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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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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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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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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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