Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
SINCLAIR LEWISIf there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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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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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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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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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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