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.

Quote by Sinclair Lewis

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Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of...

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of...

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

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

He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen...

He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen...

People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'

People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'

Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles...

Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles...

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.

Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.

Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a...

When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a...

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

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

When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the...

When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the...

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

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

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of...

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of...

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

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

I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours...

I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours...

When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a...

When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a...

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

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

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.