I 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!
SINCLAIR LEWISGod has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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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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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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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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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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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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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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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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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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