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Perhaps you can tell me why in this country nobody ever does anything. Nobody ever writes any music or starts any revolutions or falls in love. All anybody ever does is to get drunk and tell smutty stories.

John Dos Passos

John Dos Passos (1896–1970), U.S. novelist, poet, playwright, painter. Jimmy Herf in Manhattan Transfer, Houghton Mifflin Company (1925 and 1953).

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