It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
SINCLAIR LEWISYou,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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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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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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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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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