Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
SINCLAIR LEWISTo 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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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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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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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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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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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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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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