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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More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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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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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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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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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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