People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
SINCLAIR LEWISIn protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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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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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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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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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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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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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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