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Sinclair Lewis
Journalist
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Sauk Centre
Minnesota
Harry Sinclair Lewis
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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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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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest it is an industry.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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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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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much - and like so well?
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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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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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.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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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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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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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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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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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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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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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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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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