Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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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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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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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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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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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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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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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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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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