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

  Sinclair Lewis

  Names, Usa, America

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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. But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Men, Forever, Important

  Sinclair Lewis (2017). “It Can't Happen Here”, p.359, PublishDrive

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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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  Writing, Long, People

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• When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.

  Sinclair Lewis

  America, Flags, American Flag

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• Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Kings, Men, Long

  Sinclair Lewis (2014). “It Can't Happen Here”, p.356, Penguin

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• I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Energy, Oratory, Rooms

  Sinclair Lewis (2002). “Arrowsmith: Elmer Gantry ; Dodsworth”

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• The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...."

  Sinclair Lewis

  Funny, Country, Humorous

  Sinclair Lewis (1956). “Dodsworth”

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• You have more people that love you than you know.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Love You, People, Knows

  Sinclair Lewis (1947). “Kingsblood Royal”

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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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  Real, Writing, Giving

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• Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn "reasonable" and become your enemies, one quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.

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  Friendship, Blessed, Enemy

  Sinclair Lewis (2017). “It Can't Happen Here”, p.203, PublishDrive

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• Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life's dark clouds.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Love, Dark, Clouds

  Sinclair Lewis (2002). “Arrowsmith: Elmer Gantry ; Dodsworth”

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• Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Country, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  1930 Interview in Berlin, 29 Dec.

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• Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.

  Sinclair Lewis

  America, Flags, Fascism

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• The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Life, Important, Pondering

  "Arrowsmith". Book by Sinclair Lewis, 1925.

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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.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Funny, Money, Humor

  "Gideon Planish". Book by Sinclair Lewis, 1943.

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• My objection to the church isn't that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too - think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder. An it isn't so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires - though a lot of churches are that, too. My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Girl, Teaching, School

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• What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues, 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!

  Sinclair Lewis

  Love, Good Morning, Stars

  "Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth".

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• Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics! 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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  Evil, Giving, Democracy

  Sinclair Lewis (2011). “It Can't Happen Here (搶救美國)”, p.48, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it, God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.

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  Race, Perfect, Trying

  Sinclair Lewis (1995). “Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott”, p.141, Penguin

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• I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation. We're tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers... coax us, 'Be calm! Be patient! Wait! We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.' For ten thousand years they've said that. We want our Utopia now — and we're going to try our hands at it.

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  Tired, Sleep, Thinking

  Sinclair Lewis (1924). “Main Street”, p.228, Lulu.com

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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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  Men, Generations, Should

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• There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.

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  Facts, Degrees, Compliment

  Sinclair Lewis (2017). “It Can't Happen Here”, p.235, Penguin UK

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• Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Courage, Form

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• Life is hard and astonishingly complicated.... No one great reform will make it easy. 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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  Make Others Happy, Life Is Hard, Want

  Sinclair Lewis (2012). “The Job: An American Novel”, p.266, The Floating Press

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• Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-

  Sinclair Lewis

  Dog, Sleep, My Dog

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