But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
SINCLAIR LEWISWhen audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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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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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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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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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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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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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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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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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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