If that woman is on the side of the angels, then I have no choice; I must be on the side of the devil.
Sinclair LewisShe bought a budget-plan account book and made her budgets as exact as budgets are likely to be when they lack budgets.
Sinclair LewisShe could not escape asking (in the exact words and mental intonations which a thousand million women, dairy wenches and mischief-making queens, had used before her, and which a million million women will know hereafter), "Was it all a horrible mistake, my marrying him?" She quieted the doubt--without answering it.
Sinclair LewisMost troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure--wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
Sinclair LewisLord, why can't the women let you alone? Just because once or twice, seven hundred million years ago, you were a poor fool, why can't they let you forget it?
Sinclair LewisShe was close in her husband's arms; she clung to him; whatever of strangeness and slowness and insularity she might find in him, none of that mattered so long as she could slip her hands beneath his coat, run her fingers over the warm smoothness of the satin back of his waistcoat, seem almost to creep into his body, find in him strength, find in the courage and kindness of her man a shelter from the perplexing world.
Sinclair LewisAll this working land was turned into exuberance by the light. The sunshine was dizzy on open stubble; shadows from immense cumulus clouds were forever sliding across low mounds; and the sky was wider and loftier and more resolutely blue than the sky of cities... she declared. "It's a glorious country; a land to be big in
Sinclair LewisThe author says one character's definition of a classic is any book he'd heard of before he was thirty.
Sinclair LewisMots clés classic-literature
Author sees the "congested idealism" of the generally discontent as reservoir that will support centralized power even while disagreeing with many specific provisions.
Sinclair LewisMots clés complaining discontent
It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
Sinclair LewisMots clés priorities budgeting
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