Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
SINCLAIR LEWISMy objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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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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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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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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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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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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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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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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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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