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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.

Sinclair Lewis

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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Discontent Facilities Happy Learn Make Most Other Tarin Trouble Work
Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Method Other People Take Talk Themselves Write Writer
The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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Being Contrive Four Greatest Hour Human Manner Mystery Praise Put Reaction Sex Twenty
In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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Cost Fact Humidity Initial Prohibition Thing Whole
I 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.
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Complaint Conceivable Country General Have Industrialism Literature Make Myself Stand Yet
So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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Do Industrious Iron Lazy Man Mayne Middle Pay Soul War Weel
God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Around Catch Creep Disobey Done God Much never Try
Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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Become Enemy Friend Liability More Quater Reasonable Turn Tyranny Under
As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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Admit Believe Bust Dearth Eternity Fun Life Loyal More Nice Possible Sometimes
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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Been Being Contentment Fact Gain Human Large Meditation Not Permanent Recover Upon Yet
A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Another Drink Man Take
The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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Demand Disconnecting Hatred Intelligent Love More One Thing
People read fiction for emotion-not information
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Emotion Fiction Information People Read
It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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Dam Discourage Go Impossible Real Say Writer
There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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Country Dozen Fictioneer Insane May Most People Person Poet Tradition Young
Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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Bible Dicate Explain Hire Minister Perfect Race Since

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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