35 ordspråk av Sinclair Lewis

US  Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis föddes den 7 Februar 1885 och dog den 10 Januar 1951 - US writer
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 . . . being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.

 Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

 Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.

 Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile

 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.

 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

 In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman

 Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every country

 Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

 People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'

 Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form

 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

 The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

 The sermon you enjoy most is not likely to be the one that will do you the most good

 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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