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
“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
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
The chilly December day! two shivering bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio first felt their homemade contraption whittled out of hickory sticks, gummed… — John Dos Passos Air 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 Writers 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
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
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 Block 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
Women hock their jewels and their husbands' insurance policies to acquire an unaccustomed shade in hair or crêpe de chine. Why then… — John Dos Passos Acquire 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
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
A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey. — John Dos Passos Identity 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
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
“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
“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 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
“With people like that we needn't despair of civilisation,” — John Dos Passos Culture 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's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right — John Dos Passos Feels 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 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
