I love America, but I don’t like it.
SINCLAIR LEWISWhen fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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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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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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As 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.
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