When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
SINCLAIR LEWISYou,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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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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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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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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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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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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