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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.

Sinclair Lewis

That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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Excited General Great Men Nation Noblest Most Number Protest Really
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Anything Buy Customer One People
She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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Back Country Dream Far Found Herself Main Snatch Street
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
I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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Curing Give Heard Malaria Patient Syphill
I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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Conscious Die Drudging Life More Perhaps Sleep Think Tired
To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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Being Blue Country Human Literature Palin Professor Something True University
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
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
I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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Drink Exactly Now Revolution Want
Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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Curiosity Devil Dress God Grecian Modern Neither Retain Vestment Wear
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
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.
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Being Contrive Four Greatest Hour Human Manner Mystery Praise Put Reaction Sex Twenty
It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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Any Belive Error Living Need Religion Seem Think Worth
Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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Bible Dicate Explain Hire Minister Perfect Race Since
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

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