You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
SINCLAIR LEWISUnder a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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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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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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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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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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