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To the connoisseur of scenes, nothing is more enjoyable than a thorough, melodramatic, egoistic humility.

And though he had almost flunked in Greek, his thesis on 'Sixteen Ways of Paying a Church Debt' had won the ten-dollar prize in Practical Theology.

The Wonderlust--probably it's a worse affliction than the Wanderlust.

Elmer Gantry never knew who set him thirty dimes, wrapped in a tract about holiness, nor why. But he found the sentiments in the tract useful in his sermon, and the thirty dimes he spent for lovely photographs of burlesque ladies.

Certainly Lewis failed—or refused—to sketch a solution to the threat of fascism. He was a social satirist, not a systematic political thinker or theorist. Worth

What nasty men! I do hope they get shot soon," which for Mrs. Candy was a startlingly long and humanitarian statement.

Elmer Gantry was drunk. He was eloquently drunk, lovingly and pugnaciously drunk.

Women, she pointed out, had done nothing with the vote. If the United States had only listened to her back in 1919 she could have saved them all this trouble. No. Certainly not. No votes.

Why, there's no country in the world that can get more hysterical—yes, or more obsequious!—than America. Look how Huey Long became absolute monarch

cigar, and walked up and down before the house, a portly

his writings to elicit a sense of realism while inspiring a call for social change.

Harry Sinclair Lewis was born on February 7, 1885 in Minnesota.

Don't be scared of upsetting folks 'coz most of 'em are topsy-turvy anyway, and you'll only be putting 'em back on their feet.

And you want to 'reform' people like that when dynamite is so cheap?

Maud's manner indicated that the falsity of the story was an insignificant flaw in its general delightfulness.

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They were obsessed by the gaffer in Terra Haute who got converted every single night in the meetings. He may have been insane and he may have been a plain drunk.

Do you suppose it's dangerous? she asked her father, who said a lot of comforting things that didn't mean anything.

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

he believed that the earth is flat, that the English are the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel, and that the United States is a democracy.

But plenty things like this happened before Buzz Windrip ever came in, Doremus, insisted John Pollikop... You never thought about them, because they was just routine news, to stick in your paper.

But she wasn't thinking Yes. She was thinking, Milt, what worries me now isn't how I can risk letting the 'nice people' meet you. It's how I can ever waste you on the 'nice people.

Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

It is all in the way of professional experience. - Sherlock Holmes