Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
SINCLAIR LEWISIndians, 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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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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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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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