Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
SINCLAIR LEWISMy objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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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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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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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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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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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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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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