And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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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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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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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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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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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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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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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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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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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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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