Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy. — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“With people like that we needn't despair of civilisation,” — John Dos Passos Civilisation Copy Share Image
A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them. — John Dos Passos Career Copy Share Image
We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work. — John Dos Passos Food 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
Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes. — John Dos Passos Advertising 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
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 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
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
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
Love is cheap. You can buy it anywhere. Lives are cheap. It's money that's dear. You have to work days and sit… — John Dos Passos 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
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
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
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
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
To fight oppression, and to work as best we can for a sane organization of society, we do not have to abandon… — John Dos Passos 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 Copy Share Image
The Enormous Room seems to me to be the book that has nearest approached the mood of reckless adventure in which men… — John Dos Passos Adventure 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 Cynical Copy Share Image
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 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 Copy Share Image
“ Luther Burbank was born in a brick farmhouse in Lancaster Mass, he walked through the woods one winter crunching through the… — John Dos Passos Blooming flower 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
“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 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
A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey. — John Dos Passos Identity Copy Share Image
The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts… — John Dos Passos Aging 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
Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats. — John Dos Passos 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 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 Copy Share Image
There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it… — John Dos Passos Autobiography Copy Share Image
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