People read fiction for emotion-not information
SINCLAIR LEWISSince dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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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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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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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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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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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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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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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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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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