John Dos Passos

John Dos Passos

John Roderigo Dos Passos (/dɵsˈpæsɵs/; January 14, 1896 – September 28, 1970) was an American novelist and artist.

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    If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the misconceptions, the omissions, the failures that any finished work of art implies.
    —John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

    And hereby hangs a moral highly applicable to our own trustee-ridden universities, if to nothing else. If we really wanted liberty of speech and thought, we could probably get it—Spain fifty years ago certainly had a longer tradition of despotism than has the United States—but do we want it? In these years we will see.
    —John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

    Would not some lightning flash of vision sear people’s consciousness into life again? What was the good of stopping the war if armies continued?
    —John Dos Passos (1896–1970)