When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
SINCLAIR LEWISThe 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.”
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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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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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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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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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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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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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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