We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
SINCLAIR LEWISUnder a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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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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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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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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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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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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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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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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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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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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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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