People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
SINCLAIR LEWISDamn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Unhappy 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.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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