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Sinclair Lewis
American
Novelist
About the author
The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
Sinclair Lewis,
American
Novelist
#Class
#Middle class
Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.
Sinclair Lewis,
American
Novelist
#Occupation
#Winter
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,
American
Novelist
#Nothing
When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
Sinclair Lewis,
American
Novelist
#Will
#America
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,
American
Novelist
#Hope
#Audiences
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
Sinclair Lewis,
American
Novelist
#May
#Old
#Age
What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.
Sinclair Lewis,
American
Novelist
#Love
#Evening
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,
American
Novelist
#Will
#Trouble
#Being
#Sense
#Humor
#Insults
Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
Sinclair Lewis,
American
Novelist
#Courage
People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'
Sinclair Lewis,
American
Novelist
#People
#Will
#Customer
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
Sinclair Lewis,
American
Novelist
#Country
#America
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
Sinclair Lewis,
American
Novelist
#Writers
Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.
Sinclair Lewis,
American
Novelist
#Men
#Smiles
#Merriment
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
Sinclair Lewis,
American
Novelist
#Advertising
#Selling
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
Sinclair Lewis,
American
Novelist
#American
#Literature