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"I hate your city. It has standardized all the beauty out of life. It is one big railroad station—with all the people taking tickets for the best cemeteries. ~ Ch. 7"
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Sinclair LewisExcept for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that ac — Sinclair Lewis
"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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Harry Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first author from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." Lewis wrote six popular novels: Main Street (1920), Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmi
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"Elmer Gantry was drunk. He was eloquently drunk, lovingly and pugnaciously drunk."
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"It was of no use. That particular sort of coward and evader he was not, and he lay abed facing all his sins, all his slacknesses, and the merited punishment by a just and angry God. ~ Ch. 5"
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"Mr. Wilkins came back and hemmed and hawed a good deal; he praised the work she hadnt considered well done, and pointed out faults in what she considered particularly clever achievements."
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"I must say Im not very fond of oratory thats so full of energy it hasnt any room for facts. ~ Martin, Ch. 22"
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"Maybe if they didnt know it beforehand, they wouldnt find out Id ever been guilty of trying to think for myself."
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