Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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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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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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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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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 love America, but I don’t like it.
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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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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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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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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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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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