Monday, March 23, 2009

Quotes: Modern Life

Modern life 84 "[Your city] has standardized all the beauty out of life." Lewis, Babbitt.

Modern life 85 "…what I fight in Zenith is standardization of thought…." Lewis, Babbitt.

Modern life 128 "All about him the city was hustling, for hustling’s sake." Lewis, Babbitt.

Modern life 128 "…Babbitt hustled back to his office, to sit down with nothing much to do except see that the staff looked as though they were hustling." Lewis, Babbitt.

Modern life 129 "Every Saturday afternoon he hustled out to his country club and hustled through nine holes of golf as a rest after the week’s hustle." Lewis, Babbitt.

Modern life 241 "I tell you, Joe, you don’t appreciate how lucky you are to live in woods like this, instead of a city with trolleys grinding and typewriters clacking and people bothering the life out of you all the time!" Lewis, Babbitt.

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