My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
SINCLAIR LEWISYou’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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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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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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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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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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