When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
SINCLAIR LEWISWriting is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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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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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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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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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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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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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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