When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
SINCLAIR LEWISAs ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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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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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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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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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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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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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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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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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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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