It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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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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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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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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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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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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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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