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
SINCLAIR LEWISShe was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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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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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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