She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
SINCLAIR LEWISif 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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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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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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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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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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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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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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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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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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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