I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
SINCLAIR LEWISEvery man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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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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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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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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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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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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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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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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