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All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.
Upton Sinclair
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Upton Sinclair
Age: 90 †
Born: 1878
Born: September 20
Died: 1968
Died: November 25
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The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose he thinks no more of art for art's sake than a man on a sinking ship thinks of painting a beautiful picture in the cabin he thinks of getting ashore - and then there will be time enough for art.
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I am sustained by a sense of the worthwhileness of what I am doing a trust in the good faith of the process which created and sustains me. That process I call God.
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Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.
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The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived.
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The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
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Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.
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They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
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I don't know whether anyone will care to examine my heart, but if they do, they will find two words there- 'social justice.' For that is what I have believed in and fought for.
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But the devil is a subtle worm he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him.
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It is the music which makes it what it is it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky.
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Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.
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