My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
SINCLAIR LEWISIntellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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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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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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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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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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