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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.

Sinclair Lewis

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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Art Attic Booze Burn Businessmen Country Feeding Indistinguishable Left Literature Live Other Shabby Spaghetti Successful
Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Industry Mmiddlevest North Season Writer
Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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Better Criticize Custom Love Much Think Yourself
Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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Boredom Dull Good Know Live Lord Many People Philosopher Right Solution Unnecessarily
You have more people that love you than you know.
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Know Love More People You
We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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Already Go Hand Made Plan Thousand Utpoi Want Wiser Year
If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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Aching Anything Car Start Tedium Window Worse
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
So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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Much Nothing Revolution Wait
As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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Admit Believe Bust Dearth Eternity Fun Life Loyal More Nice Possible Sometimes
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!
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Divine Doom Grace Hell Most Rose Think When
Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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Always Business Fine General Large Meaningless Relate Romance Term
Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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Church Element Ponder Rarely Respectable Service Theology Theory Upon Worst
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Anything Buy Customer One People
My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Agonizingly Chie Dull Nine Ninty Objection Percent School Sermon Sunday
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

We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.

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