I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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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You have more people that love you than you know.
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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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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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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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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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