That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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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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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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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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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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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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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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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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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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