John Dos Passos (1896–1970) novelist, playwright, poet, journalist, painter
"The Business of a Novelist," review of William Rollins's The Shadow Before, 1934
“It is my considered opinion that in the fullness of time history will record the greatness of Michael Collins and it will be recorded at my expense.”
Comment in 1966, quoted in Michael Collins : A Biography (1990) by Tim Pat Coogan, p. 432.
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