Anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write. — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe. — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I used to tell myself the moon was a silver gong and if I could climb high… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The terrible thing about having New York go stale on you is that there's nowhere else. It's the top of the world. — John Dos Passos New york Copy Share Image
Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind. — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't… — John Dos Passos Cancer Copy Share Image
We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armour of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts… — John Dos Passos Humblest Copy Share Image
Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of… — John Dos Passos Being alone Copy Share Image
What's the use, there never was a woman living who could understand political ideas. — John Dos Passos Feminism Copy Share Image
It has been the struggle between privileged men who have managed to get hold of the levers of power and the people… — John Dos Passos Aspiration Copy Share Image
Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention.The professional writer… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Remember that it's never a crime in the face of humanity and enlightenment to distribute the works of the great humanists among… — John Dos Passos Book Copy Share Image
Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated… — John Dos Passos Apathy Copy Share Image
I think we are all of us a pretty milky lot, without tea-table convictions and our radicalism that keeps so consistently within… — John Dos Passos Bounds Copy Share Image
“The pressure exerted by a gas on the walls of its container does not depend upon the individual histories of the molecules… — John dos Passos Existentialist Copy Share Image
Isn't it curious how completely ignorant we all are of the most important part of our bodily mechanism. It is really criminal.… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the… — John Dos Passos Contemplation Copy Share Image
A set of ideas, a point of view, a frame of reference is in space only an intersection, the state of affairs… — John Dos Passos Affair Copy Share Image
“...and the Sunday the bishop came you couldn't see Halley's Comet any more and you saw the others being confirmed and it… — John Dos Passos Children Copy Share Image
Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on… — John Dos Passos Birth Copy Share Image
The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“What's the use of a lague of nations if it's to be dominated by Great Britain and her colonies?" said Mr. Rasmussen… — John Dos Passos Cynical Copy Share Image
Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The people of the United States have been fortunate in many things. One of the things in which we have been most… — John Dos Passos America Copy Share Image
Men who have lost their conviction of what is good and what is bad find themselves without a sextant to check their… — John Dos Passos Camping Copy Share Image
Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy. — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“But how glum he looks now." She threw some daisies at him. Then, after a pause, she added mockingly: "It's hunger, my… — John Dos Passos Hunger Copy Share Image
If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. — John Dos Passos Contemplation Copy Share Image
Shakespeare wouldn't have been any good if he'd stayed in Stratford. He had to go to London to be bathed in the… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“Think of what it was they were applauding,” he said at last. “My message today was a message of death for our… — John dos Passos Copy Share Image
But what's the good of freedom? What can you do with it? What one wants is to live well and have a… — John Dos Passos Beautiful Copy Share Image
In the last twenty-five years a change has come over the visual habits of Americans . . . From being a wordminded… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell. — John Dos Passos Boss Copy Share Image
