Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
SINCLAIR LEWISAdvertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
SINCLAIR LEWISWriting is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
SINCLAIR LEWISOne quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
SINCLAIR LEWISPeople will buy anything that is one to a customer.
SINCLAIR LEWISUnhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
SINCLAIR LEWISWinter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
SINCLAIR LEWISBut the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
SINCLAIR LEWISPugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
SINCLAIR LEWISMen die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
SINCLAIR LEWISI, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
SINCLAIR LEWISFascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
SINCLAIR LEWISSo that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
SINCLAIR LEWISIt has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
SINCLAIR LEWISWhat are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
SINCLAIR LEWISYou’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
SINCLAIR LEWISBeing a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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