Funny Quote by John Dos Passos Download Open image “Anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write.” — John Dos Passos ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Funny Happens Inspirational Love Writing
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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 Copy Share Image
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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 Copy Share Image
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What's the use, there never was a woman living who could understand political ideas. — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
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The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to produce an unknown that we may let its ideologists call Socialism the Communist dictators have produced a brutal approximation of monopoly Capitalism, a system that has all the disadvantages of our own, with none of the palliatives which… — John Dos Passos Copy Share
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 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 he has… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
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