The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
SINCLAIR LEWISAn 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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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 might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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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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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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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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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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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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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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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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