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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 | |
