Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
SINCLAIR LEWISLove is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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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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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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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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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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