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.
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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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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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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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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