I love America, but I don’t like it.
SINCLAIR LEWISExcept for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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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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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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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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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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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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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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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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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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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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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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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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