I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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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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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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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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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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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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There 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.
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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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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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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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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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