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Sinclair Lewis
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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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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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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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In everything was the spirit of children's play - not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays 'em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera--or war or fiction.
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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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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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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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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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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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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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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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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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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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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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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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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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