If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. — John Dos Passos Contemplation Copy Share Image
What's the use, there never was a woman living who could understand political ideas. — John Dos Passos Feminism 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 Hunger Copy Share Image
But what's the good of freedom? What can you do with it? What one wants is to live well and have a… — John Dos Passos Beautiful 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 Copy Share Image
Shakespeare wouldn't have been any good if he'd stayed in Stratford. He had to go to London to be bathed in the… — John Dos Passos 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 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
It has been the struggle between privileged men who have managed to get hold of the levers of power and the people… — John Dos Passos Aspiration 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
“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 Lies Copy Share Image
A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Time has an undertaking establishment on every block and drives his coffin nails faster than the steam riveters rivet or the stenographers… — John Dos Passos 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 Copy Share Image
The people of this country are too tolerant. There's no other country in the world where they'd allow it... After all we… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The chilly December day! two shivering bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio first felt their homemade contraption whittled out of hickory sticks, gummed… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
It's not the possibility of Stalinism in the U.S. that's worrying me, it's the fact that the Stalinist C.P. seems doomed to… — John Dos Passos Acting 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 Copy Share Image
One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies… — John Dos Passos Crime Copy Share Image
“The young man walks by himself, fast but not fast enough, far but not far enough (faces slide out of sight, talk… — John Dos Passos Mind Copy Share Image
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
“They have clubbed us off the streets they are stronger they are rich they hire and fire the politicians the newspapereditors the… — John Dos Passos Books 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
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 Embarrassed Copy Share Image
Eh Bien you like this sacred pig of a country?" asked Marco. "Why not? I like it anywhere. It's all the same,… — John Dos Passos Country Copy Share Image
It is a most curious experience for a man of seventy-two to be confronted with the greenhorn enthusiasms of his youth. Young… — John Dos Passos 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
In a moment when criticism shows a singular dearth of direction every man has to be a law unto himself in matters… — John Dos Passos Art 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 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 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
Humanity has a strange fondness for following processions. Get four men following a banner down the street, and, if that banner is… — John Dos Passos 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 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 Ghost Copy Share Image
In certain savage tribes in New Guinea, they put the old people up in the trees and shake them once a year… — John Dos Passos Another year 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 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
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
“But you just watch, little girl. I'm goin' to show 'em. In five years they'll come crawlin' to me on their bellies.… — John Dos Passos 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 Copy Share Image
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