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 More Quotes by Sinclair Lewis More Quotes From Sinclair Lewis Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead. Sinclair Lewis cold literature education My objection to the church isn't that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too - think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder. 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. My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull. Sinclair Lewis girl teaching school I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence. Sinclair Lewis reverence have-faith Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure--wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes. Sinclair Lewis hatred race war Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays 'em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera--or war or fiction. Sinclair Lewis shoes war needs If travel were so inspiring and informing a business ... then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers. Sinclair Lewis wisest-man men hands People will buy anything that is one to a customer. Sinclair Lewis funny-inspirational shopping money Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities. Now and then I have, for my books or myself, been somewhat warmly denounced -- there was one good pastor in California who upon reading my Elmer Gantry desired to lead a mob and lynch me, while another holy man in the state of Maine wondered if there was no respectable and righteous way of putting me in jail. Sinclair Lewis reading struggle book 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 Sinclair Lewis week inspiration impossible I love America, but I don't like it. Sinclair Lewis america So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting. Sinclair Lewis revolution waiting Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it, God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it. Sinclair Lewis race perfect trying Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry. Sinclair Lewis seasons industry winter Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. Sinclair Lewis money humor funny NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged. Sinclair Lewis facts It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class. Sinclair Lewis class 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 carols youth tragedy Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer. Sinclair Lewis wanderers cities 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. Sinclair Lewis he-man running men On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had. Sinclair Lewis democracies-have democracy ordinary
