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.
SINCLAIR LEWISWhen facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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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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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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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.
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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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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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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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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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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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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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