Andrew

“She noted that the few people whom they passed wore their raggedest coats for the evil day.”
― Sinclair Lewis, Main Street

“It is an unimaginatively standardized background, a sluggishness of speech and manners, a rigid ruling of the spirit by the desire to appear respectable. It is contentment . . . the contentment of quiet dead, who are scornful of the living for their restless walking. It is negation canonized as the one positive virtue. It is the prohibition of happiness. It is dullness made God.”
― Sinclair Lewis, Main Street

“But she knew that she still had no plan in life, save always to go along the same streets, past the same people, to the same shops.”
― Sinclair Lewis, Main Street

“Why bother hiring a hotshot if the bulk of their time is spent doing administrative work?”
― Cal Newport, A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload