Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
SINCLAIR LEWISBut the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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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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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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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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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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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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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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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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