Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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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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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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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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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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