It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
SINCLAIR LEWISI love America, but I don’t like it.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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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 middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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