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 LEWISMy chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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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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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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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 think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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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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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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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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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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