It was the ponderous battering ram of his novels that opened the way through the genteel reticences of American nineteenth-century fiction. .… — John Dos Passos Battering Copy Share Image
It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you — John Dos Passos Army Copy Share Image
I never understood exactly why people get engaged--The only time I ever did the most disastrous things happened--but I feel that there's… — John Dos Passos Confusion Copy Share Image
“What's the use of a lague of nations if it's to be dominated by Great Britain and her colonies?" said Mr. Rasmussen… — 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 Appearing Copy Share Image
Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention.The professional writer… — John Dos Passos Aspect Copy Share Image
“Aint no good place to look for a job, young feller. . . . There’s jobs all right. . . . I’ll be sixty-five years old in a… — John dos Passos Five years Copy Share Image
If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't… — John Dos Passos Conviction Copy Share Image
We're headed for collapse, if you want my opinion, Missy. I can see it in the fallin' off of the quality of… — John Dos Passos Associates Copy Share Image
“If any man has a ghost Bourne has a ghost a tiny twisted unscared ghost in a black cloak hopping along the… — John Dos Passos War Copy Share Image
Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy. — John Dos Passos Able Copy Share Image
If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. — John Dos Passos Contemplation Copy Share Image
I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More… — John Dos Passos Certain Copy Share Image
“But the workingpeople, the common people, they won't allow it.' 'It's the common people who get most fun out of the torture… — John Dos Passos Common people Copy Share Image
That's the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future… — John Dos Passos Accepting Copy Share Image
Remember that it's never a crime in the face of humanity and enlightenment to distribute the works of the great humanists among… — John Dos Passos Book Copy Share Image
A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the… — John Dos Passos Atrocities Copy Share Image
I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe. — John Dos Passos Inspirational Copy Share Image
Talk is a pure art. Its only limits are the patience of listeners who, when they get tired, can always pay for… — John Dos Passos Art Copy Share Image
“...and the Sunday the bishop came you couldn't see Halley's Comet any more and you saw the others being confirmed and it… — John Dos Passos Children Copy Share Image
[Hemingway] always used to bawl me out for including so much topical stuff. He always claimed that was a great mistake, that… — John Dos Passos Being true Copy Share Image
War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't… — John Dos Passos Cancer Copy Share Image
The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the… — John Dos Passos Accurate Copy Share Image
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