He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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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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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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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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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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