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

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Sinclair Lewis
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Minnesota
Harry Sinclair Lewis
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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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.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated.... No one great reform will make it easy. Most of us who work -- or want to work -- will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don't wish to do.
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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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