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Sinclair Lewis
Journalist
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Sauk Centre
Minnesota
Harry Sinclair Lewis
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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 man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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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It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics! I've heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I've never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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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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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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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated.... No one great reform will make it easy. Most of us who work -- or want to work -- will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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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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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts.
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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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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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