Children Quote by John Dos Passos

In certain savage tribes in New Guinea, they put the old people up in the trees and shake them once a year in the…

— John Dos Passos

In a moment when criticism shows a singular dearth of direction every man has to be a law unto himself in matters of theatre,…

— John Dos Passos

It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real…

— John Dos Passos

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…

— John Dos Passos

I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.

— John Dos Passos

When the typewriter stops in a New York office everybody's embarrassed; men start to quarrel or to make love to the stenographer or drop…

— John Dos Passos

What's the use, there never was a woman living who could understand political ideas.

— John Dos Passos

There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another…

— John Dos Passos

The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to produce an…

— John Dos Passos

To fight oppression, and to work as best we can for a sane organization of society, we do not have to abandon the state…

— John Dos Passos

A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has…

— John Dos Passos

Letters are largely written to get things out of your system.

— John Dos Passos