The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
SINCLAIR LEWISFascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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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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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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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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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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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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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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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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