John Dos Passos Quotes

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• Eh Bien you like this sacred pig of a country?" asked Marco. "Why not? I like it anywhere. It's all the same, in France you…
• Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on time? I want…
• Individuality is freedom lived.
• People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.
• I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't.
• Why, lies are like a sticky juice overspreading the world, a living, growing flypaper to catch and gum the wings of every human soul. .…
• The terrible thing about having New York go stale on you is that there's nowhere else. It's the top of the world.
• The world's becoming a museum of socialist failures.
• It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you
• The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or…
• U.S.A. is the speech of the people
• The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and…
• A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right
• The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders…
• War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting.
• There's something wonderfully exciting about the quiet sing song of an aeroplane overhead with all the guns in creation lighting out at it, and searchlights…
• Anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write.
• This ain't a war... It's a goddam whorehouse.
• The people of this country are too tolerant. There's no other country in the world where they'd allow it... After all we built up this…
• A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to…

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