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

Source: Speech, 12 Dec 1930, to Swedish Academy, accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature.
-- Sinclair Lewis, (Feb 7 1885-1951), US novelist, playwright; He was the first American to win Nobel Prize for Literature; wrote Babbitt, 1922; and Arrowsmith, 1925.

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