Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
SINCLAIR LEWISGod has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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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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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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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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You have more people that love you than you know.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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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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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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