The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
SINCLAIR LEWISThat nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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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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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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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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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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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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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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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 is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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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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