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
To fight oppression, and to work as best we can for a sane organization of society, we do not have to abandon… — 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 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 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
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
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 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 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
“Then all at once he´d hear his own voice enunciating clearly and firmly, feel its reverberance along the walls and ceiling, feel… — 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
