Letters are largely written to get things out of your system. — John Dos Passos Funny Copy Share Image
“With people like that we needn't despair of civilisation,” — John Dos Passos Civilisation Copy Share Image
People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them. — John Dos Passos Career Copy Share Image
A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right — John Dos Passos Feels Copy Share Image
Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes. — John Dos Passos Advertising 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
Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food. — John Dos Passos Freedom 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
A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey. — John Dos Passos Identity 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 Currents 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
What's the use, there never was a woman living who could understand political ideas. — John Dos Passos Feminism 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
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 Cigarette Copy Share Image
“But you’re out of another world old kid … You ought to live on top of the Woolworth Building in an apartment… — John Dos Passos Another world 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
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 Beats 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 Courses 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
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
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
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
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 Answers 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 Able 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 twentieth century will be American. American thought will dominate it. American progress will give it color and direction. American deeds will… — John dos Passos Modern man Copy Share Image
The Gospel of the army is cunning, as of all other human activities. The wisdom of the snake under the meekness of… — John Dos Passos Activity 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 Conform 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
“When they were all up playing in the nursery George caught something again and had monia on account of getting cold on… — John Dos Passos Ask questions 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 Form 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
Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats. — John Dos Passos Boxes 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
“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 1920s 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 Banner 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
