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Sinclair Lewis Quotes

«The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, ''The trouble with this country is...''»
«Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.»
Author: Sinclair Lewis (Writer) | Keywords: executives
«People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'»
«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.»
Author: Sinclair Lewis (Writer) | Keywords: audiences, funnier
«Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.»
Author: Sinclair Lewis (Writer) | About: Advertising | Keywords: cheapest, worthless
«. . . she did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them . . .»
Author: Sinclair Lewis (Writer) | Keywords: thoroughness
«Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.»
«Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile»
«What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.»
«a dictator with something of the earthy American sense of humor of a Mark Twain, a George Ade, a Will Rogers, an Artemus Ward.»

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