Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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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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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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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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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.
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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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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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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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