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Sinclair Lewis [1885-1951] American

Rank: 102
Novelist

Harry Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters."

Age, Business, Courage, Humor, Morning, Nature, Patriotism, Romantic

Quote	Tags	Rank
Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.	Nature	101
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.		102
What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.	Morning, Romantic	103
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.	Patriotism	104
Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.		105
People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'	Business	106
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.		107
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.		108
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.	Age	109
The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.		110
Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.	Courage	111
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.		112
There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.	Humor	113
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.		114

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