When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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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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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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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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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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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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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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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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