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Maybe if they didn't know it beforehand, they wouldn't find out I'd ever been guilty of trying to think for myself.
Main Street (1920)
There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
Main Street (1920)
The outhouse was so overmodestly masked with vines and lattice that it was not concealed at all.
Main Street (1920)
There had to be one man in town independent enough to sass the banker!
Main Street (1920)
It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
Main Street (1920)
She was not a Respectable Married Woman but fully a human being.
Main Street (1920)
Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by. To be 'intellectual' or 'artistic' or, in their own word, to be 'highbrow,' is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
Main Street (1920)
The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
Main Street (1920)
"I wonder if you can understand the 'fun' of making a beautiful thing, the pride and satisfaction of it, and the holiness!" The company glanced doubtfully at one another. In Gopher Prairie it is not good form to be holy except at church, between ten-thirty and twelve on Sunday.
Main Street (1920)
I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
Main Street (1920)