So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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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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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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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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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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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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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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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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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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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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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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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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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