We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
SINCLAIR LEWISFascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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.
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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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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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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