You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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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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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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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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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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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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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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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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