She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
SINCLAIR LEWISI 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
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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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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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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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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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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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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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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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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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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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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