There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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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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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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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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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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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’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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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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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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