Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
SINCLAIR LEWISWhy is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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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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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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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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