I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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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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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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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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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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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