When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
SINCLAIR LEWISThat nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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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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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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It 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.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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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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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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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’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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