He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
SINCLAIR LEWISMy chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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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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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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