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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
Sinclair Lewis
American
Literature
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
Sinclair Lewis
Selling
Advertising
Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.
Sinclair Lewis
Men
Merriment
Smiles
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
Sinclair Lewis
Writers
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
Sinclair Lewis
America
Country
People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'
Sinclair Lewis
People
Customer
Will
Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
Sinclair Lewis
Courage
There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.
Sinclair Lewis
Humor
Being
Insults
Sense
Trouble
Will
What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.
Sinclair Lewis
Love
Evening
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
Sinclair Lewis
Age
May
Old
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.
Sinclair Lewis
Hope
Audiences
When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
Sinclair Lewis
America
Will
He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
Sinclair Lewis
Nothing
Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.
Sinclair Lewis
Occupation
Winter
The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
Sinclair Lewis
Class
Middle class