John Dos Passos Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are driven to the written record by a pressing need to find answers to the riddles of today.... In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional Now that blocks good thinking.

  John Dos Passos

  Art, Block, Past

  John Dos Passos (1964). “Occasions and protests”

• A writer ... whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation.

  John Dos Passos

  Mind, Generations, Phrases

  John Dos Passos (1988). “John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose”

• 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.

  John Dos Passos

  Writing, Mind, Generations

  John Dos Passos (1988). “John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose”

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