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 LEWISFascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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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.
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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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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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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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.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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