Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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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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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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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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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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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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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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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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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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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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