What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
SINCLAIR LEWISWhen facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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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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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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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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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.
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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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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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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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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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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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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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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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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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