I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
SINCLAIR LEWISWhen fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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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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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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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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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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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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