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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.

Sinclair Lewis

Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Being Give High Man Oratory Principle
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
We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Already Go Hand Made Plan Thousand Utpoi Want Wiser Year
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
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Advertise Cheapest Economic Factor Good Particular Sell Valuable Worthless
God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Around Catch Creep Disobey Done God Much never Try
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
I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Faith Reverence True
Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Always Country Dreadful So Travel Why
And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Fellow Good Higher might Power Seem Semon Thing Time Touch
The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Barbarian Century Class Middle Prisoner Twentieth
Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Bible Dicate Explain Hire Minister Perfect Race Since
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Become Compulsion Every Obedient Polite Safe Upon Writer
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
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.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Brown Change Content Event Object Pocket Sensational Suit Warn
When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Come Country Fascism Flag Hundred Name Percent Wrap

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