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“I want you to stop being subhuman and become 'yourself'. 'Yourself,' I say. Not the newspaper you read, not your vicious neighbor's opinion, but 'yourself.' I know, and you don't, what you really are deep down. Deep down, you are what a deer, your God, your poet, or your philosopher is. But you think you're a member of the VFW, your bowling club, or the Ku Klux Klan, and because you think so, you behave as you do. This too was told you long ago, by Heinrich Mann in Germany, by Upton Sinclair and John Dos Passos in the United States. But you recognized neither Mann nor Sinclair. You recognize only the heavyweight champion and Al Capone. If given your choice between a library and a fight, you'll undoubtedly go to the fight.”

Groups Identity Individuality Peers Mob Orgone Emotional Plague Subhuman Upton Sinclair John Dos Passos Heinrich Mann

Book:Listen, Little Man!

Source: Listen, Little Man!

“If there are no permanent standards, there is no criticism possible.”

F Scott Fitzgerald U S A John Dos Passos The Usa Trilogy

Author:John Dos Passos

“This novel business is an awful business. Why the hell did I ever get mixed up in it?”

John Dos Passos

Book:The Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War

Source: The Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War