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Sinclair Lewis
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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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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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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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It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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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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We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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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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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much - and like so well?
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it, God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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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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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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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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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 compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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