Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Advertising 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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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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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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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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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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