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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 Lewis

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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Being Give High Man Oratory Principle
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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Barbarism Capable Forever Men Ritual Science Shut Silence
Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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Can Cloud Dark Enough Hing Life Lighten Love One Really Say Sure
Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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Escape Scientist Something Writer
One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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Afraid Alive Bless Die Kill Leep One Quater Speak
Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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Become Enemy Friend Liability More Quater Reasonable Turn Tyranny Under
NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Cannot Dodge Fact Now
And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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Fellow Good Higher might Power Seem Semon Thing Time Touch
A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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Brown Change Content Event Object Pocket Sensational Suit Warn
He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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Detest Fear Just Love Much People Person
It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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Bounce Custom Fight Find Get Irritation Pack Through Ticket Train Wash
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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Dam Discourage Go Impossible Real Say Writer
Good 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.
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Boredom Dull Good Know Live Lord Many People Philosopher Right Solution Unnecessarily
In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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Art Attic Booze Burn Businessmen Country Feeding Indistinguishable Left Literature Live Other Shabby Spaghetti Successful
What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Condemn Like Much Sin Unheard Well
Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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Church Element Ponder Rarely Respectable Service Theology Theory Upon Worst

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