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Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.

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Sinclair Lewis
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Sauk Centre
Minnesota
Harry Sinclair Lewis
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It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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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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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business ... then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires—to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. ... He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. —chapter 8
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much - and like so well?
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In everything was the spirit of children's play - not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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You, Said Dr. Yavitch, are a middle-road liberal, and you haven't the slightest idea what you want. I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want -- and what I want now is a drink.
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