The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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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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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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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 Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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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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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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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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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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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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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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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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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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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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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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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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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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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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