There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
SINCLAIR LEWISHe loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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