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Sinclair Lewis  Quotes
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.

—Sinclair Lewis

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GodHumorReligion
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What do you expect? Think we were sent into the world to have a soft time and what is it? Float on flowery beds of ease? Think Man was just made to be happy?- Why...

—Sinclair Lewis

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BoredomDullnessFun
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.

—Sinclair Lewis

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Winter
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I was feeling rational and restless, which is horrible for watching movies

—Sinclair Lewis

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ArrowsmithLessonsLife
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.

—Sinclair Lewis

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Morality
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.

—Sinclair Lewis

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Winter
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There’s no stronger bulwark of sound conservatism than the evangelical church, and no better place to make friends who’ll help you to gain your rightful place in the community than in your own church-home!

—Sinclair Lewis

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ChurchPoliticsStatus-Quo
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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.

—Sinclair Lewis

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Culture
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He was in stature but a small man, yet remember that so were Napoleon, Lord Beaverbrook, Stephen A. Douglas, Frederick the Great, and the Dr. Goebbels who is privily known throughout Germany as “Wotan’s Mickey...

—Sinclair Lewis

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DictatorshipFascismLiberal
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Babbit was an average father. He was affectionate, bullying, opinionated, ignorant, and rather wistful. Like most parents he enjoyed the game of waiting till the victim was clearly wrong, then virtuously pouncing.

—Sinclair Lewis

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ParentingParents
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The Senator was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his “ideas” almost idiotic, while his celebrated piety was that of a traveling salesman for church furniture, and his yet more celebrated...

—Sinclair Lewis

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DictatorshipFascismPlutocracy
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Well, he’d get help from the Bible. It was all inspired, every word, no matter what scoffers like Jim said. He’d take the first text he turned to and talk on that.He opened on: ‘Now...

—Sinclair Lewis

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BibleSermon-Writing
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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.

—Sinclair Lewis

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MotivationalOn-Writing
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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…

—Sinclair Lewis

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AgeYouth
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Well, if that’s what you call being at peace, for heaven’s sake just warn me before you go to war, will you?

—Sinclair Lewis

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ContentiousnessFruit-Of-The-SpiritPeace
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

—Sinclair Lewis

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ContentmentDiscipleshipSin
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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! With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps—just maybe—when a country...

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PeaceWarfare
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.

—Sinclair Lewis

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OpportunityPatience
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I came trusting them. They beat me with rods of dullness. They don’t know, they don’t understand how agonizing their complacent dullness is. Like ants and August sun on a wound.” – Carol Kennicott

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American-ClassicsFictionMn-Authors
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.

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OpportunityProcrastination
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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.

—Sinclair Lewis

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FriendsHumorMisanthropy
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And though he had almost flunked in Greek, his thesis on ‘Sixteen Ways of Paying a Church Debt’ had won the ten-dollar prize in Practical Theology.

—Sinclair Lewis

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GreekTheology
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business…then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers, Pullman porters, and Mormon missionaries.

—Sinclair Lewis

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HumorTravel
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love of sport.

—Sinclair Lewis

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BaseballMasculinitySports
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