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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

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
It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Class Earn Fix Spend
What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

All Color Glorious Hue Listen Love Many Out Rainbow Stand
The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Demand Disconnecting Hatred Intelligent Love More One Thing
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.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Careful Damm Executive Great Measure Men Merriment Run Shop Smile
A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Another Drink Man Take
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
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.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Church Element Ponder Rarely Respectable Service Theology Theory Upon Worst
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
Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Critical Given Gossip Protect Sensitiveness Unhappy Women
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
Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Bad Courage Form From Pugnacity Very
My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Agonizingly Chie Dull Nine Ninty Objection Percent School Sermon Sunday
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
The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Aware Behind Cocktail Desire Devastatimng Exhilaration Fill Whirling
Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

City Power Reclaim Vast Wander
And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Fellow Good Higher might Power Seem Semon Thing Time Touch
I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Curing Give Heard Malaria Patient Syphill
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
I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Energy Fact Fond Full Must Oratory Room Very
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
I love America, but I don’t like it.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Country Like Love
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
Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Achievement Citizen Come Dozen Each Easy Except Half Ignorance Proud Town
God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Around Catch Creep Disobey Done God Much never Try
Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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Certainty City Country Largest Modern One Pair Pleasentest
I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Faith Reverence True

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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