Passos

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    Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.
    —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)

    It is a most curious experience for a man of seventy-two to be confronted with the greenhorn enthusiasms of his youth. Young people think they are so smart. Alas the doctrines they spout with such fervor turn out to be mostly parroted from their elders.
    —John Dos Passos (1896–1970)