I love America, but I don’t like it.
SINCLAIR LEWISIn other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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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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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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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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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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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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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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