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Sinclair Lewis

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When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
Sinclair Lewis
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
Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.
Sinclair Lewis
The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
Sinclair Lewis
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
Sinclair Lewis
Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
Sinclair Lewis
Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.
Sinclair Lewis
Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
Sinclair Lewis
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
Sinclair Lewis
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
Sinclair Lewis
People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'
Sinclair Lewis
Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
Sinclair Lewis
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
Sinclair Lewis
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
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
What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.
Sinclair Lewis
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
Sinclair Lewis

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