And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
SINCLAIR LEWISCure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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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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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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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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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.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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