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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.

Sinclair Lewis

Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Dictate Method Pen Secret Type Use Work Writing
When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Divine Doom Grace Hell Most Rose Think When
Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Amn Another Been Civilized Completely Ever Known never Nobody Possible Thousand Year
In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Adult Children Death Everything Kill Play Preparation Ridden Rule Spirit Time
The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Apart Furious Hundred Interest Light Maker Personal Star Thousand Universe Year
That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Excited General Great Men Nation Noblest Most Number Protest Really
You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Earn Essential Immortal Morality Must Think Underneath
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.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Cathedral Little One Seem Something Spent Time
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!
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Cloud Evening Firmannent Glad God Illuminate Make Marvelous Morning Refulgence Uplift
Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Always Country Dreadful So Travel Why
Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Occupation Season Winter
It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Any Belive Error Living Need Religion Seem Think Worth
You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Among Been Come General Just Now Peace Rotarian Secure Teel
Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Arrange Country Course Cruelty God Indeed Must Priest System Theology
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.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Dictate Just No Pen Secret Toe Type Use Work Write Writeing
Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

City Power Reclaim Vast Wander

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