We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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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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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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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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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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