Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
SINCLAIR LEWISHis name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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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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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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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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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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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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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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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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