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First Quotes by John Dos Passos
- I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't.
- The chilly December day! two shivering bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio first felt their homemade contraption whittled out of hickory sticks, gummed together with Arnstein's…
- The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the…
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