A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
SINCLAIR LEWISFascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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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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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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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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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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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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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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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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