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 LEWISI have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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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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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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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 is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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