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Sinclair Lewis
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Sauk Centre
Minnesota
Harry Sinclair Lewis
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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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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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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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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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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don't wish to do.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much - and like so well?
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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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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We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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