The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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