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
“Think, man, think of all the oceans of lies through all the ages that must have been necessary to make this possible!… — John Dos Passos 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
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
Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind. — John Dos Passos Effects Copy Share Image
There's something wonderfully exciting about the quiet sing song of an aeroplane overhead with all the guns in creation lighting out at… — John Dos Passos Aeroplanes Copy Share Image
We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work. — John Dos Passos Strength 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
People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them. — John Dos Passos Career 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
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
“But how glum he looks now." She threw some daisies at him. Then, after a pause, she added mockingly: "It's hunger, my… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the… — John Dos Passos Finished work Copy Share Image
Mealtime's the only time I get to devote to the things of the spirit. — John Dos Passos Eating Copy Share Image
“And messengers must have come running to Don Jorge, telling him the service was on the point of beginning, and he must… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armour of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts… — John Dos Passos Justice Copy Share Image
“you dont like the stars in Old Glory Then go back to your land across the sea To the land from which… — John dos Passos Astronomy Copy Share Image
We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get… — John Dos Passos Eat Copy Share Image
Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of. — John Dos Passos Heard Copy Share Image
A novel is a commodity that fulfills a certain need; people need to buy daydreams like they need to buy ice cream… — John Dos Passos Aspirin 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 Camping Copy Share Image
