The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
SINCLAIR LEWISGod has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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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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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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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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