I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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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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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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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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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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