When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
SINCLAIR LEWISOn the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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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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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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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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Emotionally I know she is better than every 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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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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