Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
SINCLAIR LEWISSo much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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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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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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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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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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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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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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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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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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