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I think we are all of us a pretty milky lot, without tea-table convictions and our radicalism that keeps so consistently within the bounds of decorum . . . .I'd like to annihilate these stupid colleges of ours . . . instillers of stodginess.

Source: In The New York Public Library Book of 20th Century American Quotations, by Stephen Donadio, 1992.
-- John Dos Passos, (Jan 14 1896-1970), US writer; His reputation as a social historian and as a radical critic of the quality of American life rests primarily on his trilogy U.S.A.


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