She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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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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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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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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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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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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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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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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