My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
SINCLAIR LEWISThe middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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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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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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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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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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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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