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.
SINCLAIR LEWISIn fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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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 cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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