When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
SINCLAIR LEWISI have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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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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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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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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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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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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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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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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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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