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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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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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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No it is something dead.
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Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.
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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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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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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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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much - and like so well?
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You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest it is an industry.
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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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Indians, of course, have no theology, and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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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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