I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
SINCLAIR LEWISLife is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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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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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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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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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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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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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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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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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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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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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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