Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
SINCLAIR LEWISWhen facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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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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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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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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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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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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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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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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