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.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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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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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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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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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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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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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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