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Sinclair Lewis
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Sauk Centre
Minnesota
Harry Sinclair Lewis
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest it is an industry.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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There was much conversation, most of which sounded like the rest of it.
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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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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much - and like so well?
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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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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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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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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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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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics! I've heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I've never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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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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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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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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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