American - Novelist | February 7, 1885 - January 10, 1951
Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.
Sinclair Lewis
NatureWinterSeasonOccupation
What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.
LoveMorningRomanticEveningStar
There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.
HumorSense Of HumorTroubleNever
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
AgeOld AgeSayOldWhateverPoet
People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'
BusinessPeopleCustomerWillBuy
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.
NothingLittleHalfSeenSomething
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
BecomeSafeEverySterileCompulsion
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.
HopeLookSeeUsComeThan
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
AdvertisingSellingWayWorthless
The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
ClassMiddleCentury20th Century
Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.
GreatMenDamnSmilesCarefulOh
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
PatriotismBetterAmericaCountry
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