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 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 Copy Share Image
What's the use, there never was a woman living who could understand political ideas. — John Dos Passos 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
The Enormous Room seems to me to be the book that has nearest approached the mood of reckless adventure in which men… — John Dos Passos 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
A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey. — John Dos Passos 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 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
A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right — 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 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
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 Copy Share Image
I never understood exactly why people get engaged--The only time I ever did the most disastrous things happened--but I feel that there's… — John Dos Passos 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
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
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 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 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 Copy Share Image
The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their… — John Dos Passos 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 in the… — John Dos Passos 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 of theatre,… — 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 and real… — John Dos Passos 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 built up… — 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 or drop… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
What's the use, there never was a woman living who could understand political ideas. — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to produce an… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
To fight oppression, and to work as best we can for a sane organization of society, we do not have to abandon the state… — John Dos Passos 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 he has… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
