Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
SINCLAIR LEWISif men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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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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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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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.
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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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