Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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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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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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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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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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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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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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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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