You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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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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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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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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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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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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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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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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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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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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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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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