"Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats."

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Source : John Dos Passos (1921). “Three Soldiers”, p.322

John Dos Passos

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“The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.”
“I think people are a mixture of everything. I like desperate characters because they do things that most of us normally wouldn't do. If a character is a scoundrel or a liar you think you know them, but then I can bring some emotion to them and they become much fuller than you ever imagined. So what I try to do is have a story where you don't quite know where it's going, and characters who you don't quite know where they're going.”
“Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!”
“I'm working with UNESCO on a project called 'Thirst,' which educates children all over China and promotes awareness to the fact that 300 million people in China do not have access to water.”
“After you've won something, you're no longer 100 percent, but 90 percent. It's like a bottle of carbonated water where the cap is removed for a short while. Afterwards there's a little less gas inside.”
“He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.”
“How easy it is to forgive and loose the most violent offender, when in tears, they repent. How difficult it is forgiving our own self, for the eyes of our reflection will always expose our untold sins.”
“The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.”

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