Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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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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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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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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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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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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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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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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