“These folks from New York are all so high and mighty, with their skyscrapers and banquets and everything that t if we don't guess they come from there when we first lay an eye on 'em, we just show ourselves as awful rubes. Oh, yes! Yes. You can always tell 'em by their touch-me-not ways.”
American novelist known for his profound depiction of middle-class life in the United States. His notable works include 'Babbitt' and 'Main Street'. more
“The buildings in the area were diaphanous spreadsheets, their cells like oil slicks”
“People cannot help their predilections, although they may conceal them.”
“The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times.”
“Woe never wants, where every cause is caught, and rash Occasion makes unquiet life.”
“Yes, Dominic because the smartest people fix tenuous relationships by having babies.”