Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
SINCLAIR LEWISGod has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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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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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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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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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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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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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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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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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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