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.
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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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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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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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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