What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
SINCLAIR LEWISDamn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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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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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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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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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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