There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it… — John Dos Passos Autobiography Copy Share Image
A writer ... whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation. — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Love is cheap. You can buy it anywhere. Lives are cheap. It's money that's dear. You have to work days and sit… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts… — John Dos Passos Aging 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
Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats. — John Dos Passos 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
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
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 business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“If any man has a ghost Bourne has a ghost a tiny twisted unscared ghost in a black cloak hopping along the… — John Dos Passos Ghost Copy Share Image
In certain savage tribes in New Guinea, they put the old people up in the trees and shake them once a year… — John Dos Passos Another year Copy Share Image
I dont think there is anything on earth more wonderful than those wistful incomplete friendships one makes now and then in an… — John Dos Passos Cities Copy Share Image
The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He… — John Dos Passos Architect Copy Share Image
We're headed for collapse, if you want my opinion, Missy. I can see it in the fallin' off of the quality of… — 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
The man who invented Eskimo Pie made a million dollars, so one is told, but E.E. Cummings, whose verse has been appearing… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies… — John Dos Passos Crime Copy Share Image
“They have clubbed us off the streets they are stronger they are rich they hire and fire the politicians the newspapereditors the… — John Dos Passos Books Copy Share Image
Experiments in the visual arts (the invention of new ways of seeing things), are made because, due to the way the apparatus… — John Dos Passos Arrangements Copy Share Image
“The young man walks by himself, fast but not fast enough, far but not far enough (faces slide out of sight, talk… — John Dos Passos Mind Copy Share Image
“But you just watch, little girl. I'm goin' to show 'em. In five years they'll come crawlin' to me on their bellies.… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
[Hemingway] always used to bawl me out for including so much topical stuff. He always claimed that was a great mistake, that… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Why, lies are like a sticky juice overspreading the world, a living, growing flypaper to catch and gum the wings of every… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Humanity has a strange fondness for following processions. Get four men following a banner down the street, and, if that banner is… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
That's the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the… — John Dos Passos Atrocities Copy Share Image
The people of this country are too tolerant. There's no other country in the world where they'd allow it... After all we… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
When the typewriter stops in a New York office everybody's embarrassed; men start to quarrel or to make love to the stenographer… — John Dos Passos Embarrassed Copy Share Image
I think the satirist is always basically optimistic. The satirist's complaint about society is always that it doesn't measure up to a… — John Dos Passos Complaints Copy Share Image
In a moment when criticism shows a singular dearth of direction every man has to be a law unto himself in matters… — John Dos Passos Art Copy Share Image
Eh Bien you like this sacred pig of a country?" asked Marco. "Why not? I like it anywhere. It's all the same,… — John Dos Passos Country Copy Share Image
It is a most curious experience for a man of seventy-two to be confronted with the greenhorn enthusiasms of his youth. Young… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“Think, man, think of all the oceans of lies through all the ages that must have been necessary to make this possible!… — John Dos Passos Lies Copy Share Image
A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Time has an undertaking establishment on every block and drives his coffin nails faster than the steam riveters rivet or the stenographers… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
A novel is a commodity that fulfills a certain need; people need to buy daydreams like they need to buy ice cream… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Man seems to be an animal whose capacity for lies is only equalled by his credulity; it does no good to let… — John Dos Passos Animal Copy Share Image
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