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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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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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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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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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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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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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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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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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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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