Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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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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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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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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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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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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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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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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