The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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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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.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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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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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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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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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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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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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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