Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
SINCLAIR LEWISWe’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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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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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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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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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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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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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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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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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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