We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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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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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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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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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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