Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
SINCLAIR LEWISIf travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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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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You have more people that love you than you know.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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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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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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