You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
SINCLAIR LEWISHe loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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?
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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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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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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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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