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The Jungle

— Upton Sinclair

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  1. I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
  2. I have regarded you, not as a novelist, but as an historian; for it is my considered opinion, unshaken at 85, that records of fact are not …
  3. You protest, and with justice, each time Hitler jails an opponent; but you forget that Stalin and company have jailed and murdered a thousa…
  4. I did not want to say these unpleasant things, but you have written to me, asking my opinion, and I give it to you, flat. If you would get …
  5. I look upon Upton Sinclair as one of the greatest novelists in the world, the Zola of America.
  6. What Fielding was to the eighteenth century and Dickens to the nineteenth. Sinclair is to our own. The overwhelming knowledge and passionat…
  7. I never met a Socialist, or a Socialist cause, that I didn't like.
  8. The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.

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