Time has an undertaking establishment on every block and drives his coffin nails faster than the steam riveters … - John Dos Passos

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I think it's true that unless human beings experience something, they simply don't understand what people are going through.

John Dos Passos

Time has an undertaking establishment on every block and drives his coffin nails faster than the steam riveters rivet or the stenographers type or the tickers tick out fours and eights and dollar signs and ciphers.

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

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Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are driven to the written record by a pressing need to find answers to the riddles of today. . . . In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional Now that blocks good thinking.

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If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

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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.

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Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

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