God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
SINCLAIR LEWISI think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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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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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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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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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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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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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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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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