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 with your toes-it is just work.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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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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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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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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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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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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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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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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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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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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