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.
SINCLAIR LEWISI love America, but I don’t like it.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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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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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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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 sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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