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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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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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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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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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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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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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