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• It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.

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  Class

  Sinclair Lewis (2011). “It Can't Happen Here (搶救美國)”, p.728, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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

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  Devil, Dresses, May

  Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Sinclair Lewis (1931). “Why Sinclair Lewis got the Nobel prize”

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• The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed, if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.

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  School, Army, Boys

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• It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.

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  Meditation, Contentment, Facts

  Sinclair Lewis (1995). “Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott”, p.237, Penguin

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• NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.

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  Facts

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• 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.

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  Facts, Degrees, Compliment

  Sinclair Lewis (2017). “It Can't Happen Here”, p.235, Penguin UK

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• A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.

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  Food, Men, Cooking

  Words to his future wife, Dorothy Thompson. Quoted in Vincent Sheean Dorothy and Red (1963).

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• 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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  Atheist, Believe, Thinking

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• Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

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  Courage, Form

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• Life is hard and astonishingly complicated.... No one great reform will make it easy. Most of us who work -- or want to work -- will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.

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  Make Others Happy, Life Is Hard, Want

  Sinclair Lewis (2012). “The Job: An American Novel”, p.266, The Floating Press

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• I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation. We're tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers... coax us, 'Be calm! Be patient! Wait! 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.

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  Tired, Sleep, Thinking

  Sinclair Lewis (1924). “Main Street”, p.228, Lulu.com

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• Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it, God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.

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  Race, Perfect, Trying

  Sinclair Lewis (1995). “Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott”, p.141, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Children, Play, Preparation

  SINCLAIR LEWIS (1940). “BERTHEL MERRIDAY”

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• Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-

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  Dog, Sleep, My Dog

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• People read fiction for emotion-not information

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  People, Fiction, Information

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• It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.

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  America, Mind, Mountain

  Sinclair Lewis (1995). “Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott”, p.309, Penguin

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• We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.

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  Sick, Cookies

  Sinclair Lewis (2008). “Main Street: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.368, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by. To be 'intellectual' or 'artistic' or, in their own word, to be 'highbrow,' is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.

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  Ignorance, Achievement, Intellectual

  Sinclair Lewis (2008). “Main Street”, p.55, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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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  War, Shoes, Needs

  Sinclair Lewis (1915). “The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life”

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• On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.

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  Democracies Have, Democracy, Ordinary

  Sinclair Lewis (2014). “It Can't Happen Here”, p.30, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Tragedy, Youth, Carols

  Sinclair Lewis (1995). “Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott”, p.402, Penguin

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• Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.

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  Inspirational, Winter, Occupation

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• She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.

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  Mind, Details, Thoroughness

  'Babbitt' (1922) ch. 18

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• Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods. Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.

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  Writing, Kids, People

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

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  Writing, Safe, Polite

  Letter declining Pulitzer Prize in fiction (1926)

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