Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
SINCLAIR LEWISWe’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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My 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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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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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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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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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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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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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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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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