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.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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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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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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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 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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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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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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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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