When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
SINCLAIR LEWISGod has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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There 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.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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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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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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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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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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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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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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