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Sinclair Lewis
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Sauk Centre
Minnesota
Harry 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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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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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by. To be 'intellectual' or 'artistic' or, in their own word, to be 'highbrow,' is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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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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You, Said Dr. Yavitch, are a middle-road liberal, and you haven't the slightest idea what you want. I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want -- and what I want now is a drink.
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It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest it is an industry.
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Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.
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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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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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