Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
SINCLAIR LEWISWriting is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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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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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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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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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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