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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.

Sinclair Lewis

When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Come Country Fascism Flag Wrap
The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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Being Contrive Four Greatest Hour Human Manner Mystery Praise Put Reaction Sex Twenty
If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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Aching Anything Car Start Tedium Window Worse
Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Method Other People Take Talk Themselves Write Writer
I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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Deliver Every Minister Presume Sermon Understand Week Why
When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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Audience Author Come Funnier Hope Largely Lecture Raed See
We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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Calm Caution Coax Hear Heard Patient Politicians Priest Reformer Wait
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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Being Blue Country Human Literature Palin Professor Something True University
God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Around Catch Creep Disobey Done God Much never Try
Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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Boredom Dull Good Know Live Lord Many People Philosopher Right Solution Unnecessarily
So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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Much Nothing Revolution Wait
And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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Fellow Good Higher might Power Seem Semon Thing Time Touch
There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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Country Dozen Fictioneer Insane May Most People Person Poet Tradition Young
The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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Country Many People Say Trouble
In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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Art Attic Booze Burn Businessmen Country Feeding Indistinguishable Left Literature Live Other Shabby Spaghetti Successful
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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Ago Art Decline Election Institute Letter National Price Protest Some Year

We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.

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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.

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