My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
SINCLAIR LEWISWith your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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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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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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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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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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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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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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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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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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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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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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