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The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea.

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Sinclair Lewis

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

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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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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.

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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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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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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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