You have more people that love you than you know.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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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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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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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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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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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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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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