Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
SINCLAIR LEWISI was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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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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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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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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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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