35 ordspråk av Sinclair Lewis

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Sinclair Lewis föddes den 7 februari 1885 och dog den 10 januari 1951 - amerikansk författare.
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en People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'
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en 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.
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en Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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en Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
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en The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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en Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.
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en There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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en There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble
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en The best sermon is that preached in such human understanding that a hearer can say: "It was preached for me as though I had been alone
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en The sermon you enjoy most is not likely to be the one that will do you the most good
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en I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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en The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, ''The trouble with this country is...''
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en Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.
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en . . . she did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them . . .
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en Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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