Quotes
Authors
John Dos Passos
"I dont think there is anything on earth more wonderful than those wistful incomplete friendships one makes now and then in an hour's talk. You never see the people again, but the lingering sense of their presence in the world is like the glow of an unseen city at night--makes you feel the teemingness of it all." --
Source : John Dos Passos (1973). “The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos”, Harvard Common Press
John Dos Passos
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“It makes that a virtue which is not a virtue, and that a crime which is not a crime. Religion consists in a round of observances that have no relation whatever to natural goodness, but which rather exclude it by being a substitute for it. Penances and pilgrimages take the place of justice and mercy, benevolence and charity. Such a religion, so far from being a purifier, is the great corrupter of morals.”
“I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake.”
“One thing about Germany - they'll be organised, they'll be big and they'll be strong.”
“They say that Heaven is like TV... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you.”
“There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.”
“I thought The Visitation was good fun. We did some of that filming at Ealing on the big set.”
“The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for the deliverance from fear. It is the storm within that endangers him, not the storm without.”
“Gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage; marriage under law is a union of equals.”
Source : "Proposition 8 ruling excerpts from U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn Walker [updated]". latimesblogs.latimes.com. August 4, 2010.