“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.” ThinkingYearsBigsCareSchoolGirlChurchTeachingMurderDoctrineSellingChiefsFakeDullWickedSundayPreacherBondageSermonsMillionaireArrestedObjectionsBig BusinessSeducingHypocriticalSunday SchoolOrphanageArson Author:Sinclair Lewis
“There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.” MayLittlesYoungPoetTraditionTraditionalInsaneDullDozenJoyce Author:Sinclair Lewis
“Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one's business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse; and that the pastor's sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which 'did a fellow good-- kept him in touch with Higher Things.” StillsSeemsMightPastChurchWorstHigherElementsFellowsPracticalsTheologyDullPastorSermonsBeneficialRespectableKernel Book:Babbitt Source: Babbitt
“Good Lord, I don't know what 'rights' a man has! And I don't know the solution of boredom. If I did, I'd be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull, as ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenYearsBelieveSometimesMightFunLordNiceRightsTenSolutionsEternityPatientPhilosopherCuresBoredomDullLoyalSixtyBeing NiceBusted Book:Babbitt Source: Babbitt
