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  1. John Dos Passos _ Rosinante to the Road Again

    a nation in which the centralized power and the separate communities work only to nullify each other.
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  2. John Dos Passos _ Rosinante to the Road Again

    The old Romans knew better; to keep people quiet they filled their bellies.
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  3. John Dos Passos _ Rosinante to the Road Again

    That is Baroja's world: dismal, ironic, the streets of towns where industrial life sits heavy on the neck of a race as little adapted to it as any in Europe.
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  4. John Dos Passos _ Rosinante to the Road Again

    The addition of the typewriter to the printing-press has given a new and horrible impetus to the spread of half-baked thought.
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  5. John Dos Passos _ Rosinante to the Road Again

    And messengers must have come running to Don Jorge, telling him the service was on the point of beginning, and he must have waved them away with a grave gesture of a long white hand, while in his mind the distant sound of chanting, the jingle of the silver bit of his roan horse stamping nervously where he was tied to a twined Moorish column, memories of cavalcades filing with braying of trumpets and flutter of crimson damask into conquered towns, of court ladies dancing, and the noise of pigeons in the eaves, drew together like strings plucked in succession on a guitar into a great wave of rhythm in which his life was sucked away into this one poem in praise of death.
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  6. John Dos Passos _ Rosinante to the Road Again

    While his bread remains sweet, his novels may be as bitter as he likes.
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  7. John Dos Passos _ Rosinante to the Road Again

    in this country where an hour's train ride will take you from Siberian snow into African desert, unity of population is hardly to be expected.
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  8. John Dos Passos _ Rosinante to the Road Again

    between Don Quixote the mystic and Sancho Panza the sensualist there is no middle ground.
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  9. John Dos Passos _ Rosinante to the Road Again

    Spain as a modern centralized nation is an illusion, a very unfortunate one; for the present atrophy, the desolating resultlessness of a century of revolution, may very well be due in large measure to the artificial imposition of centralized government on a land essentially centrifugal.
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  10. John Dos Passos _ Rosinante to the Road Again

    Print so easily spins a web of the commonplace over the fine outlines of life.
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