William Dean Howells Quote

There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.


As quoted in Jackson Lears, Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America, 1994, New York: BasicBooks, p. 286.


There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.

There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.

There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.

There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.