Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
Sinclair LewisStichwörter: culture
Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.
Sinclair LewisStichwörter: winter
We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
Sinclair LewisIt is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.
Sinclair LewisStichwörter: motivational on-writing
You," Said Dr. Yavitch, "are a middle-road liberal, and you haven't the slightest idea what you want. I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want -- and what I want now is a drink.
Sinclair LewisI think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation. We're tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers... coax us, 'Be calm! Be patient! Wait! 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 LewisThere are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
Sinclair LewisThe Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
Sinclair LewisStichwörter: humor god religion
She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
Sinclair LewisStichwörter: humor
Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
Sinclair LewisStichwörter: humor
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