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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

Sinclair Lewis
Education, Literature, Cold
Nobel Prize address, Stockholm, 12 Dec. 1930

To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.

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

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.

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

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