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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.

Sinclair Lewis

Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Beaten Bizzard Dispute Grow Hatreds Her Labor Make Most Nature Pleasure Politics Race Send Trouble Unnecessary War Warm Wheat
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!
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Do Industrious Iron Lazy Man Mayne Middle Pay Soul War Weel
Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Astonishingly Complicated Easy Great Hard Life Make No One Reform
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
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Become Compulsion Every Obedient Polite Safe Upon Writer
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
It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Class Earn Fix Spend
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
There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Always Compliment Cruel Degree Fact Greater Jew Measure Regime Scientific Sillness Unpouplarity
The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Being Contrive Four Greatest Hour Human Manner Mystery Praise Put Reaction Sex Twenty
It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Aaraom Anxious Being Believe Do Except might Mind Perhaps Satan
Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Better Country Emotionally Ever Know Other She
I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Deliver Every Minister Presume Sermon Understand Week Why
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
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
There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Do Done Eager Many People Provide So Them Thing Will World

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