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 LEWISGood Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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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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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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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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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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