I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
SINCLAIR LEWISFascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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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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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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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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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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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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