You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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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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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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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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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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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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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