I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
SINCLAIR LEWISFascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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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 have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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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.
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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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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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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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The 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.”
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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