When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
SINCLAIR LEWISA man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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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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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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