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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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Sinclair Lewis
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Sauk Centre
Minnesota
Harry Sinclair Lewis
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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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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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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