Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
SINCLAIR LEWISFascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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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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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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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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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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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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