“It seems to me that history is always more alive
and more interesting than fiction. I suppose that is because a story is the
daydream of a single man, while history is a mass invention, the daydream of a
race.”—Novelist/historian John Dos Passos (1896-1970) quoted in Donald Pizer, Dos Passos’ USA: A Critical Study (1988)Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Quote of the Day (John Dos Passos, on History as the ‘Daydream of a Race’)
“It seems to me that history is always more alive
and more interesting than fiction. I suppose that is because a story is the
daydream of a single man, while history is a mass invention, the daydream of a
race.”—Novelist/historian John Dos Passos (1896-1970) quoted in Donald Pizer, Dos Passos’ USA: A Critical Study (1988)
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