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 LEWISParis is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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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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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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