Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
SINCLAIR LEWISIs it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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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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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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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 there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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