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Upton Sinclair Biography

Upton Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943.

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An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.

Events, Long, May, Overwhelming, Significance

Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.

Beast, Cultivating, Evasive, Men, Strange

Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.

Become, Drama, Grief, Pleasure, Write, Writing

You don't have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn't like the way I found America some sixty years ago, and I've been trying to change it ever since.

America, Change, Found, Satisfied, Trying, Years

You can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.

Depends, Salary, Somebody, Understanding

The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit.

Blood, Joy, Limits, Old, Unbound, Wanderlust

The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label. I certainly proved it in the case of EPIC [End Poverty in California]. Running on the Socialist ticket I got 60,000 votes, and running on the slogan to 'End Poverty in California' I got 879,000. I think we simply have to recognize the fact that our enemies have succeeded in spreading the Big Lie. There is no use attacking it by a front attack, it is much better to out-flank them.

Enemies, Front, Lying, Running, Thinking, Ticket

It was cold and clammy in the stone cell; they called it the "cooler," and used it to reduce the temperature of the violent and intractable. It was a trouble-saving device; they just left the man there and forgot him, and his own tormented mind did the rest.

Cells, Cooler, Device, Men, Mind

And as for other men, who worked in tank-rooms full of steam, and in some of which there were open vats near the level of the floor, their peculiar trouble was that they fell into the vats; and when they were fished out, there was never enough of them left to be worth exhibiting,-sometimes they would be overlooked for days, till all but the bones of them had gone out into the world as Durham's Pure Leaf Lard! This contributed to the passing of the Pure Food Act of 1906.

Enough, Law, Leaf, Level, Men, Science

The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.

Credit, Modern, Private, Slavery

Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby the minds of the people are kept in a state of acquiescence, so that when the crisis of an election comes, they go to the polls and cast their ballots for either one of the two candidates of their exploiters.

Acquiescence, Control, Journalism, People, Political, Two

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Depends, Difficult, Man, Men, People, Wisdom

The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind; that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence.

Brain, Brains, Influences, Sloth, Stupidity

I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision.

Lots, Married, Organization, Says, Three, Times

Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .

Advance, Church, History, Pages, Records, Religion

Into this wild-beast tangle these men had been born without their consent, they had taken part in it because they could not help it; that they were in jail was no disgrace to them, for the game had never been fair, the dice were loaded. They were swindlers and thieves of pennies and dimes, and they had been trapped and put out of the way by the swindlers and thieves of millions of dollars.

Consent, Jail, Men, Millions, Swindlers, Taken

Through fasting. . . I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.

Existence, Fasting, Feeling, Feelings, Perfect, Purity

All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.

Art, Creative, Optimistic, Tragic, Way

I have not only found good health, but perfect health; I have found a new state of being, a potentiality of life; a sense of lightness and cleanness and joyfulness, such as I did not know could exist in the human body.

Body, Found, Good Health, Know, Perfect, Potentiality

I am sustained by a sense of the worthwhileness of what I am doing; a trust in the good faith of the process which created and sustains me. That process I call God.

Good Faith, Process, Sustained, Sustains, Trust

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