It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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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You have more people that love you than you know.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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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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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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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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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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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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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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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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