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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

Sinclair Lewis

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Sinclair Lewis
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Sauk Centre
Minnesota
Harry Sinclair Lewis
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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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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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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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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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There was much conversation, most of which sounded like the rest of it.
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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays 'em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera--or war or fiction.
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Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.
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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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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest it is an industry.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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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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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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