My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
SINCLAIR LEWISWriters have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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To 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.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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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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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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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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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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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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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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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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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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