I love America, but I don’t like it.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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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.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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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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You have more people that love you than you know.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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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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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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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.
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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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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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