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John Dos Passos

"People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them."

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Donna Grant

"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

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Donna Grant

"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

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Donna Grant

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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Donna Grant

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

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Donna Grant

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

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Donna Grant

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

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Donna Grant

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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Donna Grant

"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."

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Donna Grant

"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."

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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."

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John Dos Passos
"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 express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief."

Society

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John Dos Passos
"Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes."

Movies

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John Dos Passos
"If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works."

Writing

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John Dos Passos
"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."

Man

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John Dos Passos
"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."

Work

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John Dos Passos
"Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell."

Woman

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John Dos Passos
"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."

People

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John Dos Passos
"What is the use being a big man if you are wrong?"

Being

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John Dos Passos
"U.S.A. is the speech of the people."

People

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John Dos Passos
"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 that constitutes growing older."

Friendship

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