Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
SINCLAIR LEWISThere are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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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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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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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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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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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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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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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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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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