I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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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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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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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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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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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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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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