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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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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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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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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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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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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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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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 world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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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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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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