We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
SINCLAIR LEWISThere is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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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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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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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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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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