When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
SINCLAIR LEWISThe most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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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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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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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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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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