It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
SINCLAIR LEWISDon’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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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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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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