Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
SINCLAIR LEWISA man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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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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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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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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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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