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Sinclair Lewis
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Sauk Centre
Minnesota
Harry Sinclair Lewis
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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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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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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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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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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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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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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues, illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature's hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God's marvelous firmament!
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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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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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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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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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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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You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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