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!
SINCLAIR LEWISEmotionally I know she is better than every other country.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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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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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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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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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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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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