John Roderigo Dos Passos (1896–1970) was an American novelist and artist active in the first half of the twentieth century. Born in Chicago, he graduated from Harvard College in 1916. He was well-traveled, visiting Europe and the Middle East, where he learned about literature, art, and architecture. During World War I, he was an ambulance driver for American volunteer groups in Paris and Italy before joining the United States Army Medical Corps.
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Individuality is freedom lived.
—John Dos Passos
Topics: Individuality
People don’t choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.
—John Dos Passos
Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension.
—John Dos Passos
Topics: Apathy
Why won’t they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can’t they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping – rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year’s and Easter and Christmas – But, goodness, why need they do it?
—John Dos Passos
Topics: Time
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