When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
SINCLAIR LEWISI love America, but I don’t like it.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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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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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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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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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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