Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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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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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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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