Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
SINCLAIR LEWISUnhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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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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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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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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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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