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
SINCLAIR LEWISEmotionally I know she is better than every other country.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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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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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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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 trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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