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.
SINCLAIR LEWISWhen facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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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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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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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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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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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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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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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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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 was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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