God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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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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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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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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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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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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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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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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