Carol Milford Kennicott

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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. We're tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers...coax us, "Be calm! Be patient! Wait! We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just give us a bit more time and we’ll produce it; trust us; we're wiser than you." For ten thousand years they've said that. We want our Utopia now-and we're going to try our hands at it.

Sinclair Lewis

Main Street

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Topic

Political progress Progress

Speaker

Carol Milford Kennicott

Author

Sinclair Lewis

Source

Main Street

Medium

Novel

Genre

Satire

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Lewis, Sinclair. Main Street. Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920, ch. 16.

Current Citation

Lewis, Sinclair. "Main Street." Sinclair Lewis: Main Street and Babbitt, edited by John Hersey. Library of America, 1992, ch. 16.