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Sinclair Lewis
Journalist
Novelist
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Sauk Centre
Minnesota
Harry Sinclair Lewis
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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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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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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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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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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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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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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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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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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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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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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