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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.

Sinclair Lewis

It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Any Belive Error Living Need Religion Seem Think Worth
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
Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Can Cloud Dark Enough Hing Life Lighten Love One Really Say Sure
When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Audience Author Come Funnier Hope Largely Lecture Raed See
But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Barbarism Capable Forever Men Ritual Science Shut Silence
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
Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Industry Mmiddlevest North Season Writer
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
Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Dog My Sleep With
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
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.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Complaint Conceivable Country General Have Industrialism Literature Make Myself Stand Yet
She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Detail Dis Mind never Quit Reves She Throughness Understand Work
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
A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Altogether Aspire Chief Country Ignorance Paint Pure Standardize Succeed Take Victorian Village
Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

City Power Reclaim Vast Wander
Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Down Every Man King Long Look So Someone

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