God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
SINCLAIR LEWISThere is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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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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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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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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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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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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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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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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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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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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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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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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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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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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