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.
SINCLAIR LEWISUnhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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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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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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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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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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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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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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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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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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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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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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