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 LEWISThink how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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