John Dos Passos

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1. 1896 age 0

   Born

2. 1935 age 39

   CreditThe Devil Is a Womanscreenwriter

3. 1937 age 41

   CreditThe Spanish Earthscreenwriter

4. 1970 age 74

   Died

• HMHank Mann1 title
• HDHans Dreier1 title
• TBTravis Banton1 title
• MWMorgan Wallace1 title
• LBLucien Ballard1 title
• CRCesar Romero1 title
• MDMarlene Dietrich1 title
• JLJohn Leipold1 title
• JGJohn George1 title
• LGLawrence Grant1 title

• Humanity has a strange fondness for following processions. Get four men following a banner down the street, and, if that banner is inscribed with rhymes of pleasant optimism, in an hour, all the town will be afoot, ready to march to whatever tune the leaders care to play.

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• Organization kills.

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• One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies take the place of mental processes and revolts, crimes, despairs pass off in a dribble of vague words and rubber stamp phrases without leaving a scratch on the mind of the driven instalment-paying, subway-packing mass.

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• 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 of second-class historian of the age he lives in. The "reality" he missed by writing about imaginary people, he gains by being able to build a reality more nearly out of his own factual experience than a plain historian or biographer can.

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• The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation. That's history. A writer who writes straight is the architect of history.

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• Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of.

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