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It is not what he feels and aspires that moves him primarily; it is what the folks about him will think of him.

— Sinclair Lewis describing the protagonist of Babbitt (1922)

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Slow yellow river flowing, willows that gesture in tepid August airs, and four children playing at greatness, as, doubtless, great men themselves must play.

Ann Vickers (1933)

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

Gideon Planish (1943)

Is it possible that nobody has ever known—that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?

The God-Seeker (1949)

Mr. Blingham, and may he fry in his own cooking-oil, was assistant treasurer of the Flaver-Saver Company.

Kingsblood Royal (1947)

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