Sinclair Lewis

When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#freedom #politics #religion #freedom

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#on-writing #motivational

The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#humor #religion #humor

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth... ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#youth #age

She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#humor

If travel were so inspiring and informing a business...then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers, Pullman porters, and Mormon missionaries. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#travel #business

Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#humor

I was feeling rational and restless, which is horrible for watching movies ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#lessons #life #lit #movies #quotes

He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#misanthropy #love

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. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#masculinity #sports #love