She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
SINCLAIR LEWISAdvertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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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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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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It 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.
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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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