She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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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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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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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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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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