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Sinclair Lewis

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
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
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
Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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City Power Reclaim Vast Wander
What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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All Color Glorious Hue Listen Love Many Out Rainbow Stand
if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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Army Being Business Commuter Human Leader Men Officer Plumber Rotary Salesmen Salvation Travel Wearers
Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Always Country Dreadful So Travel Why
Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Bad Courage Form From Pugnacity Very
The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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Country Many People Say Trouble
One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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Afraid Alive Bless Die Kill Leep One Quater Speak
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.
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Cathedral Little One Seem Something Spent Time
It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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Aaraom Anxious Being Believe Do Except might Mind Perhaps Satan
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
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
You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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Earn Essential Immortal Morality Must Think Underneath
An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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Bondage Business Church Doctrine Down Lot Millionaire Much Too

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