Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
Sinclair LewisAdvertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
Sinclair LewisBeing a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
Sinclair LewisShe did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
Sinclair LewisUpon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one's business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse; and that the pastor's sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which 'did a fellow good-- kept him in touch with Higher Things.
Sinclair Lewis