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.
SINCLAIR LEWISI 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!
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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There 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.
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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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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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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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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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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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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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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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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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