Town mind is the standard mind of the world. Always eager to sameness, suspicious of eccentricity, its richest man is the manufacturer who hires——a politician, not a poet.Main Street
I love these people; wouldn’t be contented if I couldn’t live among them. But I do get so sick of their spiritual poverty.Dr. Will Kennicott
A man spends his life planning to commence life.Sinclair Lewis
Normal life is all one cut-and-dried routine.Dr. Will Kennicott
The older I get the more I realize that the most interesting thing in the world—next to the dreams of youth—is the way nearly everybody is almost happy, almost kind, almost honestCarol
What does progress really mean? Dani our definition of civilization must be too simple.Carol Kennicott
That’s the great trouble with you iconoclasts: you go so far in trying to make all men think alike, that before you get done there’s nobody who dares to think at all!Maud Dyer
We are so afraid of being thought sentimental that we go to all lengths in pretending to be touch-me-notsSinclair Lewis
Gopher Prairie is only an enlargement of all the hamlets which they had been patronizing.Vida Sherwin
In twenty years I will still be your husband, and you’ll be a couple of wrinkled old women—and I’ll go on practicing medicine, and you’ll have nothing but your pretty thoughts about culture!Dr. Will Kennicott