The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
SINCLAIR LEWISIntellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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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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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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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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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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