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United States novelist who satirized middle-class America in his novel Main Street (1885-1951)

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

– Sinclair Lewis

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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.

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

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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

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

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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.

– Sinclair Lewis

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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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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.

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

– Sinclair Lewis

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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.

– Sinclair Lewis

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

– Sinclair Lewis

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

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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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There are two insults no human being will endure that he has no sense of humor, and that the has never known trouble.

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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.

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