I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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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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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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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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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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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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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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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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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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