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Sinclair Lewis
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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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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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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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It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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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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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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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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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest it is an industry.
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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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You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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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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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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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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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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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