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One Quotes by John Dos Passos
- Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on time? I want…
- I dont think there is anything on earth more wonderful than those wistful incomplete friendships one makes now and then in an hour's talk. You…
- Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with.…
- There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another novel.
- One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies take the place…
- Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes…
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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