Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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 world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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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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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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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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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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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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