My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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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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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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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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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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