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.
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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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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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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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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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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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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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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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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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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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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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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