What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
SINCLAIR LEWISThe one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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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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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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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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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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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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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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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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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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