Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
SINCLAIR LEWISWinter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
SINCLAIR LEWISUpon 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.
SINCLAIR LEWISSo much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
SINCLAIR LEWISTo live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
SINCLAIR LEWISThere are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
SINCLAIR LEWISI love America, but I don’t like it.
SINCLAIR LEWISYou have more people that love you than you know.
SINCLAIR LEWISMy chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
SINCLAIR LEWISWhen you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
SINCLAIR LEWISThe middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
SINCLAIR LEWISSince dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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
SINCLAIR LEWISBut the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
SINCLAIR LEWIS