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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, it's an occupation.
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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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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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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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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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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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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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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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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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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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest it is an industry.
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It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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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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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much - and like so well?
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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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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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