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Sinclair Lewis

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
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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Clear Cold Country Dead Literature Professor Pure Very
I love America, but I don’t like it.
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Country Like Love
I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Faith Reverence True
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.
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Always Fiction Funny Much Need Opera Praise Pray Shoemaker Singer So Strive War Well World
Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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Anyone Arrwe Bore Dead Else Long People Power 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.
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Experience Gone Great Heart Honest Income Maybe Money Perhaps Propaganda Tax Union
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.
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Adult Children Death Everything Kill Play Preparation Ridden Rule Spirit Time
Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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Dictate Method Pen Secret Type Use Work Writing
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
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Aware Behind Cocktail Desire Devastatimng Exhilaration Fill Whirling
God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Around Catch Creep Disobey Done God Much never Try
In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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Cost Fact Humidity Initial Prohibition Thing Whole
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
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
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.
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Century Civilization Country Dedicate Impossible Inspiration Itself Salesman Suire Traveling Wisdom
It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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Class Earn Fix Spend

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