Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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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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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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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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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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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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