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Sinclair Lewis

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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Artistic Dubious Highbrow Intellectual Lord Own Priggish Virtue
Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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Discontent Facilities Happy Learn Make Most Other Tarin Trouble Work
A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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Brown Change Content Event Object Pocket Sensational Suit Warn
Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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Careful Damm Executive Great Measure Men Merriment Run Shop Smile
My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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Actual Church Cruel Hypocritical Objective Peacher Some Them Through Wick
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
Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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Being Give High Man Oratory Principle
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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Dictate Just No Pen Secret Toe Type Use Work Write Writeing
Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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Die Fresh Generation Immortal Men Necessary Plutocracy Rained Service
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
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
Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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Age Hit Less Need Old People Person Tragedy Upon Vigorous Youth
I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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Believe Brought Christianity Compromise Creator God Merciless Public Scare Servant Truth Whole
So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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Do Industrious Iron Lazy Man Mayne Middle Pay Soul War Weel
If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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Business Deck Hand Information Inspire Steamer Tramp Travel Wise World
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

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