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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.

Sinclair Lewis

The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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Important Living Most Part Ponder Upon
To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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Being Blue Country Human Literature Palin Professor Something True University
A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Another Drink Man Take
It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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Been Being Contentment Fact Gain Human Large Meditation Not Permanent Recover Upon Yet
To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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Country Devil Live People Person Soul
We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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Always Conscious Deferring Generation Hope Life More Next Perhaps Think Tired Want
His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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Afford Call Country House More Name Nimble Pay People Person Sell
It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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Dam Discourage Go Impossible Real Say Writer
Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Bad Courage Form From Pugnacity Very
A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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Altogether Aspire Chief Country Ignorance Paint Pure Standardize Succeed Take Victorian Village
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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Come Country Fascism Flag Hundred Name Percent Wrap
I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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Complaint Conceivable Country General Have Industrialism Literature Make Myself Stand Yet
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.
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Arrange Country Course Cruelty God Indeed Must Priest System Theology
It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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Bounce Custom Fight Find Get Irritation Pack Through Ticket Train Wash
Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Method Other People Take Talk Themselves Write Writer
We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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All Cookies Ever May Sick Sicker Too

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