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 LEWIS
He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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