We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
SINCLAIR LEWISWhen audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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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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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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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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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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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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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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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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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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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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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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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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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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