John Dos Passos

Novelist

1896-01-14

Books by John Dos Passos

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The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves.
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The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.
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Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.
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The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.
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Letters are largely written to get things out of your system.
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Women alone always order sole. It means something.
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Shakespeare wouldn't have been any good if he'd stayed in Stratford. He had to go to London to be bathed in the full current of the Renaissance.
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