A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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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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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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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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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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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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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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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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