John Dos Passos Quotes about Time

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Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping - rising to

Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping - rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year's and Easter and Christmas - But, goodness, why need they do it?

John Dos Passos

New Year, Time, Easter

Mealtime's the only time I get to devote to the things of the spirit.

John Dos Passos

Time, Spirit, Eating

John Dos Passos (2013). “The 42nd Parallel”, p.220, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Time has an undertaking establishment on every block and drives his coffin nails faster than the steam riveters rivet or the stenographers type or the tickers tick out fours and eights and dollar signs and ciphers.

John Dos Passos

Death, Time, Block

John Dos Passos (1934). “Three Plays: The Garbage Man, Airways, Inc., Fortune Heights”

John Dos Passos Quotes about Time

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