I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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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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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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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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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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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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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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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