Quotes: Small Town (3)

 Small town     143         "How had she fallen into the folly of trying to plant anything whatever in a wall so smooth and sun-glazed, and so satisfying to the happy sleepers within?" Sinclair Lewis, Main Street.

Small town     151         "Small-town philosophy: People who make more than ten thousand a year or less than eight hundred are wicked.: Sinclair Lewis, Main Street.

Small town     151        "Small-town philosophy: Virgins are not so virginal as they used to be." Sinclair Lewis, Main Street.

Small town     151         "Small-town philosophy: There would be no more trouble or discontent in the world if everybody worked as hard as Pa did when he cleared our first farm." Sinclair Lewis, Main Street.

Small town     153         "I wonder if the small town is not, with some lovely exceptions, a social appendix…some day these dull market-towns may be as obsolete as monasteries." Sinclair Lewis, Main Street.