John Dos Passos Quotes
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As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service. It's the part of the organization where the spies live. I didn't have much experience beyond the training.
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The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.
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There's no formula for success in this business. You just do the best you can.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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I just started taking pictures, and it was - it was an instant love affair. It was just ecstatic.
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My first book didn't even have a Canadian publisher. And that upset me, because I so wanted a readership up there.
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I once worked as a tour guide in the Costa del Sol of Spain.
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I was always pretty good at designing things.
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Vegetarians should have that moral basis-that a man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows.
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Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.
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A day out from the bay of Saardos, Drokler honored the brass Rorn god in the prow with a pound of incense.The blank god mask stared back at them through the pall of sweet blue smoke....It gazed in myopic stillness out over the long shock of the waves, ignoring their words, their presence, their costly offering.
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The strength of the imagination, its enriching power and excitement, lies in its interplay with reality-physical and emotional.
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One of the limits of reality Presents itself in Oley when the hay, Baked through long days, is piled in mows. It is A land too ripe for enigmas, too serene.… Things stop in that direction and since they stop The direction stops and we accept what is As good. The utmost must be good and is…
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They brought the house up-to-date and did it in a beautiful way.
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The more readily we admit the possibility of our own cherished convictions being mixed with error, the more vital and helpful whatever is right in them will become; and no error is so conclusively fatal as the idea that God will not allow us to err, though He has allowed all other men to do so.
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When I'm creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it in terms of a movie with a soundtrack, and try to transfer that to words.
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I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins. I have many close friends. I have received so much love in Lahore that the city always pulls me.
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It hurt. At first, I couldn't feel the ball.
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All right we are two nations.
