What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
SINCLAIR LEWISThere is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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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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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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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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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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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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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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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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