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| Sinclair Lewis
A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man. Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. 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. 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. People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.' Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form. There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull. |
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