What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
SINCLAIR LEWISThere are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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I 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
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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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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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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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