I love America, but I don’t like it.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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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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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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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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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.
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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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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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