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 LEWISDamn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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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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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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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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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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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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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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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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