I love America, but I don’t like it.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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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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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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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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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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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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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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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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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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