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 LEWISTo a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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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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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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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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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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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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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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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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