On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
SINCLAIR LEWISYou’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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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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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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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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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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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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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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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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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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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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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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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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