He said brokenly many things beautiful in their common-ness.
Sinclair LewisThey decided now, talking it over in their tight little two-and-quarter room flat, that most people who call themselves 'truth seekers' - persons who scurry about chattering of Truth as though it were a tangible seperable thing, like houses or salt or bread - did not so much desire to find Truth as to cure their mental itch. In novels, these truth-seekers quested the 'secret of life' in laboratories which did not seem to be provided wtih Bunsen flames or reagents; or they went, at great expense and much discomfort from hot trains and undesirable snakes, to Himalayan monasteries, to learn from unaseptic sages that the Mind can do all sorts of edifying things if one will but spend thirty or forty years in eating rice and gazing on one's navel.
To these high matters Martin responded, 'Rot!' He insisted that there is no Truth but only many truths; that Truth is not a colored bird to be chased among the rocks and captured by its tail, but a skeptical attitude toward life. (260)
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 LewisTags: politics church status-quo
The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day.
Sinclair LewisWhat are these unheard of sins you condemn so much - and like so well?
Sinclair LewisThe 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.
Sinclair LewisTags: baseball sports masculinity
Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
Sinclair LewisTags: contentment sin discipleship
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 LewisTags: peace witness fruit-of-the-spirit contentiousness
Never was a Family more insistent on learning one another’s movements than were the Bunch. All of them volubly knew, or indignantly desired to know, where all the others had been every minute of the week.
Sinclair LewisTags: social-networking
I was feeling rational and restless, which is horrible for watching movies
Sinclair LewisTags: life movies quotes lessons restless lit arrowsmith
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