He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
SINCLAIR LEWISWith 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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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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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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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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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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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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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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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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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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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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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