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Intellectually I know America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
-Sinclair Lewis
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Advertising
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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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America
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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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Art
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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.
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Books
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
-Sinclair Lewis
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Bravery
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
-Sinclair Lewis
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Criticism
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There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
-Sinclair Lewis
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Love
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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.
-Sinclair Lewis
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Management
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
-Sinclair Lewis
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Patriotism
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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Travel
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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, on sightseeing
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Books by and about Sinclair Lewis