“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.” WritingMindTodayFormGenerationsTomorrowSpeechAspectEndurePhrasesPrintArchitect Book:John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose Source: John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose
“Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention.The professional writer discovers some aspect of the world and invents out of the speech of his time some particularly apt and original way of putting it down on paper.” ThinkingWorldWayWritingStillsThreeSpeechPaperDiscoveryAspectOriginalsInventionProseOriginalityThree WordsProfessional Writing Book:John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose Source: John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose
“A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.” MenOrderAspectUglyFleshReliefFierceSavagesCreepsSatirist Book:Occasions and protests Source: Occasions and protests
“Experiments in the visual arts (the invention of new ways of seeing things), are made because, due to the way the apparatus that makes up the mind is made, old processes and patterns have continually to be broken up in order to make it possible to perceive the new aspects and arrangements of evolving consciousness. The great enemy of intelligence is complacency.” WayMindArtMadeOrderProcessConsciousnessEnemySeeingBrokenAspectPatternsDuesExperimentsInventionEvolvePerceiveVisualsNew WaysArrangementsComplacencyVisual ArtBroken Up Author:John Dos Passos
