30 ordspråk av Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis föddes den February 7th 1885 och dog den 10 January 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. |
| . . . she did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them . . . |
| a dictator with something of the earthy American sense of humor of a Mark Twain, a George Ade, a Will Rogers, an Artemus Ward. |
| 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. |
| Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment. |
| Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead. |
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