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Them Quotes by John Dos Passos
- People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.
- 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…
- A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to…
- A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the hatred of the…
- A writer ... whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation.
- The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort…
- 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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