The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
SINCLAIR LEWISMen die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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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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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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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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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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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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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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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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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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