• In America most of us are still afraid of any literature which is not a glorification of everything American, a glorification of our faults as well as our virtues.

  Source: Lezing bij aanvaarden Nobelprijs 12-12-1930

  Sinclair Lewis
  American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright 1885-1951
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1. glorification
2. everything
3. american
4. virtues

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In America most of us are still afraid of any literature which is not a glorification of everything American, a glorification of our faults as well as our virtues. by : Sinclair Lewis

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