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"In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent business man . . . "	Sinclair Lewis	Babbitt
Babbitt spoke well--and often--at these orgies of commercial righteousness about the "realtor's function as a seer of the future development of the community, and as a prophetic engineer clearing the pathway for inevitable changes"--which meant that a real-estate broker could make money by guessing which way the town would grow. This guessing he called Vision.	Sinclair Lewis	Babbitt
. . . being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.	Sinclair Lewis	Babbitt
. . . she did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them . . .	Sinclair Lewis	Babbitt
"There are two races of people, only two, and they live side by side. His calls mine 'neurotic'; mine calls his 'stupid'."	Sinclair Lewis	Main Street
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.	Sinclair Lewis	Main Street