It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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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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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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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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
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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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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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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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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