Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
SINCLAIR LEWISOn the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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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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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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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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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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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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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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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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