I love America, but I don’t like it.
SINCLAIR LEWISWe’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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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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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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