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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.

Sinclair Lewis

I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Beebm Accomplish Convenience Critical Everything Free Important Preservation Social Spirit System While World Worth
Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Bad Courage Form From Pugnacity Very
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.
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Altogether Aspire Chief Country Ignorance Paint Pure Standardize Succeed Take Victorian Village
Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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City Power Reclaim Vast Wander
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
I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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Energy Fact Fond Full Must Oratory Room Very
A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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Brown Change Content Event Object Pocket Sensational Suit Warn
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
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Become Compulsion Every Obedient Polite Safe Sterile Upon Writer
Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Industry Mmiddlevest North Season Writer
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.
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Critical Given Gossip Protect Sensitiveness Unhappy Women
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
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
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
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Deliver Every Minister Presume Sermon Understand Week Why
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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Advertise Cheapest Economic Factor Good Particular Sell Valuable Worthless

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