Sinclair Lewis Quotes

• Cuando el fascismo llegue a los Estados Unidos, lo hará envuelto en la bandera americana y con el nombre de "cien por cien americanismo".

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  Names, Usa, America

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• Estoy convencido de que todo lo que vale la pena en el mundo ha sido logrado por el espíritu libre, inquisitivo y crítico, y que la preservación de este espíritu es más importante que cualquier sistema social. Pero los hombres del ritual y los hombres de la barbarie son capaces de callar a los hombres de ciencia y silenciarlos para siempre.

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  Men, Forever, Important

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

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• Cuando el facismo llegue a América, lo hará envuelto en la bandera americana.

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  America, Flags, American Flag

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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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  Escritura, Largo, Gente

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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.

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  Energy, Oratory, Rooms

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

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

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  Kings, Men, Long

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

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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...."

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  Divertido, País, Humor

  Sinclair Lewis (1956). “Dodsworth”

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

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  Love You, People, Knows

  Sinclair Lewis (1947). “Kingsblood Royal”

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• Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.

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  America, Flags, Fascism

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

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  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.

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  País, 4 th Of July, Patriótico

  1930 Interview in Berlin, 29 Dec.

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

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  Life, Important, Pondering

  "Arrowsmith". Book by Sinclair Lewis, 1925.

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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.

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  Girl, Teaching, School

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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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  Divertido, Dinero, Humor

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

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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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• ¡Curar los males de la Democracia con los males del Fascismo! ¡Curiosa terapéutica! He oído que curan la sífilis dando al paciente malaria, pero nunca he oído que curen la malaria dando al paciente sífilis.

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

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  Courage, Form

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• La vida es dura y asombrosamente complicada.... Ninguna gran reforma la hará fácil. La mayoría de los que trabajamos -o queremos trabajar- siempre tendremos problemas o descontento. Así que debemos aprender a estar tranquilos, entrenar todas nuestras facultades y hacer felices a los demás.

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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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• 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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  Meditation, Contentment, Facts

  Sinclair Lewis (1995). “Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott”, p.237, Penguin

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• ¿Qué es el amor? Escuchad. Es el arco iris que se destaca, en todos sus gloriosos matices multicolores, iluminando y alegrando de nuevo las oscuras nubes de la vida. Es la estrella de la mañana y de la tarde, que en alegre refulgencia, allá en el horizonte sobrecogido, llaman a los corazones de la Naturaleza a un elevado regocijo en el maravilloso firmamento de Dios.

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  Love, Good Morning, Stars

  "Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth".

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