You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
SINCLAIR LEWISThink 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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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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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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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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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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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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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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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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