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Sinclair Lewis _ Main Street
There are two insults which no human being will endure: the assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble. Carol
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Sinclair Lewis _ Main Street
She would earn her living.
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Sinclair Lewis _ Main Street
Always she was disappointed, but always she effervesced anew-
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Sinclair Lewis _ Main Street
She was credulous, perhaps; a born hero-worshipper; yet she did question and examine unceasingly.
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Sinclair Lewis _ Main Street
Even when she was tired her dark eyes were observant. She did not yet know the immense ability of the world to be casually cruel and proudly dull,
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Sinclair Lewis _ Main Street
The smallness of the school, the fewness of rivals, permitted her to experiment with her perilous versatility.
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Sinclair Lewis _ Main Street
dull and repetitive lifestyle.
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Sinclair Lewis _ Main Street
Lewis was an extremely cold, stern, and business-minded man.
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Sinclair Lewis _ Main Street
Harry Sinclair Lewis was born on February 7, 1885 in Minnesota.
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Sinclair Lewis _ Main Street
his writings to elicit a sense of realism while inspiring a call for social change. Class, gender, and sexual preference were themes that he cared about, and he showed his readers that none of these factors actually mattered.
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Sinclair Lewis _ Main Street
his writings to elicit a sense of realism while inspiring a call for social change.
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Sinclair Lewis _ Main Street
In some respects, writing was his only form of human interaction.
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