Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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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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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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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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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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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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