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
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
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
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 Built 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 Great saying by great authors Copy Share Image
What's the use, there never was a woman living who could understand political ideas. — John Dos Passos Ideas 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… — John Dos Passos Autobiography 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… — John Dos Passos Approximation 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 Abandon 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 Aspect Copy Share Image
Letters are largely written to get things out of your system. — John Dos Passos Funny 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 Adventure Copy Share Image
“ Luther Burbank was born in a brick farmhouse in Lancaster Mass, he walked through the woods one winter crunching through the… — John Dos Passos Blooming flower 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 Alas Copy Share Image
It's not the possibility of Stalinism in the U.S. that's worrying me, it's the fact that the Stalinist C.P. seems doomed to… — John Dos Passos Acting 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 Given 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
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
“It would mean,” he told the editor of the New York World, “that we would lose our heads along with the rest… — John dos Passos Every man 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 Young man 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 Dear Copy Share Image
“Do you know how long God took to destroy the Tower of Babel, folks? Seven minutes. Do you know how long the… — John Dos Passos America 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
