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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.

Sinclair Lewis

He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Detest Fear Just Love Much People Person
Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Always Fiction Funny Much Need Opera Praise Pray Shoemaker Singer So Strive War Well World
His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Afford Call Country House More Name Nimble Pay People Person Sell
I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Beebm Accomplish Convenience Critical Everything Free Important Preservation Social Spirit System While World Worth
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.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Age Hit Less Need Old People Person Tragedy Upon Vigorous Youth
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
It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Dam Discourage Go Impossible Real Say Writer
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
Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Escape Scientist Something Writer
With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Experience Gone Great Heart Honest Income Maybe Money Perhaps Propaganda Tax Union
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.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Boredom Dull Good Know Live Lord Many People Philosopher Right Solution Unnecessarily
If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Aching Anything Car Start Tedium Window Worse
Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Come Country Fascism Flag Wrap
Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Century Civilization Country Dedicate Impossible Inspiration Itself Salesman Suire Traveling Wisdom
I love America, but I don’t like it.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Country Like Love
The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Important Living Most Part Ponder Upon

In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.

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