Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
SINCLAIR LEWISSo much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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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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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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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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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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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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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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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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