It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
SINCLAIR LEWISSince dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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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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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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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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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any 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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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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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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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.
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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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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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