Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
SINCLAIR LEWISA man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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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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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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