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When I was a kid I used to tel...

When I was a kid I used to tell myself the moon was a silver gong and if I could climb high enough to beat on it with both hands all my wishes would come true.

John Dos Passos 95 quotes

Experiments in the visual arts...

Experiments in the visual arts (the invention of new ways of seeing things), are made because, due to the way the apparatus that makes up the mind is made, old processes and patterns have continually to be broken up in order to make it possible to perceive the new aspects and arrangements of evolving consciousness. The great enemy of intelligence is complacency.

John Dos Passos 95 quotes

The mind cannot support moral ...

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs

John Dos Passos 95 quotes

A curious thing about atrocity...

A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the hatred of the people that tell them. Still, you can't listen unmoved to tales of misery and murder.

John Dos Passos 95 quotes

Women is fine once you got em ...

Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.

John Dos Passos 95 quotes

People do not choose a career;...

People do not choose a career; the career envelopes them.

John Dos Passos 95 quotes

Curiosity urges you on-driving...

Curiosity urges you on-driving force.

John Dos Passos 95 quotes

A satirist is a man whose fles...

A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.

John Dos Passos 95 quotes

Marxism has not only failed to...

Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food.

John Dos Passos 95 quotes

The people of this country are...

The people of this country are too tolerant. There's no other country in the world where they'd allow it... After all we built up this country and then we allow a lot of foreigners, the scum of Europe, the offscourings of Polish ghettos to come and run it for us.

John Dos Passos 95 quotes

This ain't a war... It's a god...

This ain't a war... It's a goddam whorehouse.

John Dos Passos 95 quotes

Anything that happens to you h...

Anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write.

John Dos Passos 95 quotes

War is utter damn nonsense, a ...

War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting.

John Dos Passos 95 quotes

I do a lot of revising. Certai...

I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't.

John Dos Passos 95 quotes

Time has an undertaking establ...

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.

John Dos Passos 95 quotes

The Enormous Room seems to me ...

The Enormous Room seems to me to be the book that has nearest approached the mood of reckless adventure in which men will reach the white heat of imagination needed to fuse the soggy disjointed complexity of the industrial life about us into seething fluid of creation. There can be no more playing safe.

John Dos Passos 95 quotes

In a moment when criticism sho...

In a moment when criticism shows a singular dearth of direction every man has to be a law unto himself in matters of theatre, writing, and painting. While the American Mercury and the new Ford continue to spread a thin varnish of Ritz over the whole United States there is a certain virtue in being unfashionable.

John Dos Passos 95 quotes

Women hock their jewels and th...

Women hock their jewels and their husbands' insurance policies to acquire an unaccustomed shade in hair or crГЄpe de chine. Why then is it that when anyone commits anything novel in the arts he should be always greeted by this same peevish howl of pain and surprise? One is led to suspect that the interest people show in these much talked of commodities, painting, music, and writing, cannot be very deep or very genuine when they so wince under an unexpected impact.

John Dos Passos 95 quotes

A set of ideas, a point of vie...

A set of ideas, a point of view, a frame of reference is in space only an intersection, the state of affairs at some given momentin the consciousness of one man or many men, but in time it has evolving form, virtually organic extension. In time ideas can be thought of as sprouting, growing, maturing, bringing forth seed and dying like plants.

John Dos Passos 95 quotes

Three words that still have me...

Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention.The professional writer discovers some aspect of the world and invents out of the speech of his time some particularly apt and original way of putting it down on paper.

John Dos Passos 95 quotes

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....