When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
SINCLAIR LEWISIn fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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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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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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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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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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