You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
SINCLAIR LEWISThe cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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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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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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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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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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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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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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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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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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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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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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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