We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
SINCLAIR LEWISI must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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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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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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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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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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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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