You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
SINCLAIR LEWISIntellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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