Man seems to be an animal whose capacity for lies is only equalled by his credulity; it does no good to let… — John Dos Passos Animal Copy Share Image
“Men seemed to have shrunk in stature before the vastness of the mechanical contrivances they had invented. Michael Angelo, da Vinci, Aretino,… — John Dos Passos Michael angelo Copy Share Image
“Then all at once he´d hear his own voice enunciating clearly and firmly, feel its reverberance along the walls and ceiling, feel… — John Dos Passos 1919 Copy Share Image
The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us,… — John Dos Passos Add Copy Share Image
“With people who are young and aren't scared you can do lots.” — John Dos Passos Youth Copy Share Image
The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He… — John Dos Passos Architect Copy Share Image
Experiments in the visual arts (the invention of new ways of seeing things), are made because, due to the way the apparatus… — John Dos Passos Arrangements Copy Share Image
Why, lies are like a sticky juice overspreading the world, a living, growing flypaper to catch and gum the wings of every… — John Dos Passos Caught Copy Share Image
I think the satirist is always basically optimistic. The satirist's complaint about society is always that it doesn't measure up to a… — John Dos Passos Complaints Copy Share Image
“There was Babylon and Nineveh; they were built of brick. Athens was gold marble columns. Rome was held up on broad arches… — John Dos Passos Manhattan Copy Share Image
Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell. — John Dos Passos Boss Copy Share Image
Anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write. — John Dos Passos Funny Copy Share Image
“Think of what it was they were applauding,” he said at last. “My message today was a message of death for our… — John dos Passos Death Copy Share Image
A set of ideas, a point of view, a frame of reference is in space only an intersection, the state of affairs… — John Dos Passos Affair Copy Share Image
The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their… — John Dos Passos Behavior Copy Share Image
There are too many "creative writing" courses and seminars, in which young wirters are constantly being taught to rewrite the previous generation.… — John Dos Passos Courses Copy Share Image
Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated… — John Dos Passos Apathy Copy Share Image
I dont think there is anything on earth more wonderful than those wistful incomplete friendships one makes now and then in an… — John Dos Passos Cities Copy Share Image
In the last twenty-five years a change has come over the visual habits of Americans . . . From being a wordminded… — John Dos Passos Becoming Copy Share Image
It's easy to forget how central the French people are in everything we mean when we say Europe. — John Dos Passos Culture Copy Share Image
