Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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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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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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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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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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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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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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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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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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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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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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