The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with … - Sinclair Lewis

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As an artist, I'm really inspired by everything around me - from travel and art, to friends and family, social voices in media and politics. I get a lot of inspiration from daily life.

Sinclair Lewis

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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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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A beautiful woman without fixed principles may be likened to those fair but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze.

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Indeed we have souls. And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe. That listens to water with a river flowing, or water falling in rain and is lifted up by that and listens to a wonderful singer, wonderful musicians, listens to maybe Duke Ellington or Frank Sinatra or listens to Odetta and Mary J. Blige. Yes, and thinks whoo! And thinks, yes, hmm, all right now. My soul has been washed. I feel better, I feel stronger.

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Don't you have a religion?" Dorolow asked Horza. "Yes," he replied, not taking his eyes away from the screen on the wall above the end of the main mess-room table. "My survival. " "So. . . your religion dies with you. How sad," Dorolow said, looking back from Horza to the screen. The Changer let the remark pass.

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When you punish a person for dreaming his dream, don't expect him to thank or forgive you.

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