Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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
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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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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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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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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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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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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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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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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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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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