Friday, November 20, 2009

Quotes: Reform and Reformers (2).

Reform 221 "Perhaps this evening would convert Gopher Prairie to conscious beauty." Sinclair Lewis, Main Street.


Reform 248 "And she comes rushing in and expects in one year to change the whole town into a lollypop paradise, with everybody stopping everything else to grow tulips and drink tea." Sinclair Lewis, Main Street.


Reform 261 "How you hate this place! How can you expect to do anything with it if you haven’t any sympathy?" Sinclair Lewis, Main Street.


Reform 263 "You give up too easily…gave up on…the dramatic association—just because we didn’t graduate into Ibsen the very first thing; you want perfection all at once." Sinclair Lewis, Main Street.


Reform 276 "And we’ll continue in barbarism just as long as people as nearly intelligent as you continue to defend things as they are because they are." Sinclair Lewis, Main Street.

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