Monday, November 23, 2009

Quotes: Reform and Reformers (3)

Reform 331 "Young man, go East and grow up with the revolution…perhaps you may come back and tell Sam and Nat and me what to do with the land we’ve been clearing—if we’ll listen—if we don’t lynch you first." Sinclair Lewis, Main Street.


Reform 422 "Here’s the test for you: Do you come to ‘conquer the East’ as people say, or do you come to conquer yourself?" Sinclair Lewis, Main Street.


Reform 423 "There’s one attack you can make on it, perhaps the only kind that accomplishes much anywhere: you can keep on looking at one thing after another in your home and church and bank, and ask why it is, and who first laid down the law that it had to be that way." Sinclair Lewis, Main Street.


Reform 423 "Easy, pleasant, lucrative homework for wives: asking people to define their jobs…the most dangerous doctrine I know." Sinclair Lewis, Main Street.


Reform 431 "…a hundred generations of Carols will aspire and go down in tragedy…the humdrum inevitable tragedy of struggle against inertia." Sinclair Lewis, Main Street.

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