Passos

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    “Eh Bien you like this sacred pig of a country?” asked Marco.
    “Why not? I like it anywhere. It’s all the same, in France you are paid badly and live well; here you are paid well and live badly.”
    —John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

    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.
    —John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

    But what’s the good of freedom? What can you do with it? What one wants is to live well and have a beautiful house and be respected by people.
    —John Dos Passos (1896–1970)