I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
SINCLAIR LEWISHe who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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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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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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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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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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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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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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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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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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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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