New york Quote by John Dos Passos

“The terrible thing about having New York go stale on you is that there's nowhere else. It's the top of the world.”

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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…

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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…

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

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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…

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

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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…

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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…

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

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I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.

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