It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
SINCLAIR LEWISWriters kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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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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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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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!
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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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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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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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.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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