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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

Sinclair Lewis

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
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.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Country Devil Live People Person Soul
When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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Divine Doom Grace Hell Most Rose Think When
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
Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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Careful Damm Executive Great Measure Men Merriment Run Shop Smile
We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Always Conscious Deferring Generation Hope Life More Next Perhaps Think Tired Want
Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Cloud Evening Firmannent Glad God Illuminate Make Marvelous Morning Refulgence Uplift
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Become Compulsion Every Obedient Polite Safe Upon Writer
Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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Better Country Emotionally Ever Know Other She
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Better Country Intellectual Know Other
Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Age Hit Less Need Old People Person Tragedy Upon Vigorous Youth
Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Century Civilization Country Dedicate Impossible Inspiration Itself Salesman Suire Traveling Wisdom
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
It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Board Country High Make Mind Mountain Myth Necessary One Our Favorite Plain Purpose
Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Cure Democracy Evil Fascism Funny Therapeutic
A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Another Drink Man Take

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