The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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When 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!
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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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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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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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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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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