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John Dos Passos quotes: The old Romans knew better; to keep people quiet they filled their bellies. The old Romans knew better; to keep people quiet they filled their bellies.
John Dos Passos quotes: Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell. Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.
John Dos Passos quotes: The world's becoming a museum of socialist failures. The world's becoming a museum of socialist failures.
John Dos Passos quotes: 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 estate? 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 estate?
John Dos Passos quotes: Love is cheap. You can buy it anywhere. Lives are cheap. It's money that's dear. You have to work days and sit up nights thinking how to make money. Love is cheap. You can buy it anywhere. Lives are cheap. It's money that's dear. You have to work days and sit up nights thinking how to make money.
John Dos Passos quotes: Git an eyeful of cesspool alley the land of opportunity. Git an eyeful of cesspool alley the land of opportunity.
John Dos Passos quotes: A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right. A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right.
John Dos Passos quotes: What's the use, there never was a woman living who could understand political ideas. What's the use, there never was a woman living who could understand political ideas.
John Dos Passos quotes: U.S.A. is the speech of the people. U.S.A. is the speech of the people.
John Dos Passos quotes: Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy. Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.
John Dos Passos quotes: Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats. Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.
John Dos Passos quotes: Anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write. Anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write.
John Dos Passos quotes: A nation in which the centralized power and the separate communities work only to nullify each other. A nation in which the centralized power and the separate communities work only to nullify each other.
John Dos Passos quotes: So many Americans felt that their neighbor had no right to know more than they did. So many Americans felt that their neighbor had no right to know more than they did.
John Dos Passos quotes: Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind. Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind.
John Dos Passos quotes: Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of. Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of.
John Dos Passos quotes: Individuality is freedom lived. Individuality is freedom lived.
John Dos Passos quotes: all right we are two nations all right we are two nations
John Dos Passos quotes: Mealtime's the only time I get to devote to the things of the spirit. Mealtime's the only time I get to devote to the things of the spirit.
John Dos Passos quotes: I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't. I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't.
John Dos Passos quotes: I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps. I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.
John Dos Passos quotes: If there are no permanent standards, there is no criticism possible. If there are no permanent standards, there is no criticism possible.
John Dos Passos quotes: The addition of the typewriter to the printing-press has given a new and horrible impetus to the spread of half-baked thought. The addition of the typewriter to the printing-press has given a new and horrible impetus to the spread of half-baked thought.
John Dos Passos quotes: With people who are young and aren't scared you can do lots. With people who are young and aren't scared you can do lots.
John Dos Passos quotes: But you're out of another world old kid ... You ought to live on top of the Woolworth Building in an apartment made of cutglass and cherry blossoms. But you're out of another world old kid ... You ought to live on top of the Woolworth Building in an apartment made of cutglass and cherry blossoms.
John Dos Passos quotes: Between Don Quixote the mystic and Sancho Panza the sensualist there is no middle ground. Between Don Quixote the mystic and Sancho Panza the sensualist there is no middle ground.
John Dos Passos quotes: With people like that we needn't despair of civilisation, With people like that we needn't despair of civilisation,
John Dos Passos quotes: How do I get to Broadway?...I want to get to the center of things. How do I get to Broadway?...I want to get to the center of things.
John Dos Passos quotes: Accidents will happen in the best regulated families. Accidents will happen in the best regulated families.
John Dos Passos quotes: We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work. We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.
John Dos Passos quotes: It's easy to forget how central the French people are in everything we mean when we say Europe. It's easy to forget how central the French people are in everything we mean when we say Europe.
John Dos Passos quotes: It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you. It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you.
John Dos Passos quotes: This ain't a war ... It's a goddam whorehouse. This ain't a war ... It's a goddam whorehouse.
John Dos Passos quotes: Everything published goes down the same chute out of the overbright glare of publicity into oblivion. Everything published goes down the same chute out of the overbright glare of publicity into oblivion.
John Dos Passos quotes: Letters are largely written to get things out of your system. Letters are largely written to get things out of your system.
John Dos Passos quotes: People do not choose a career; the career envelopes them. People do not choose a career; the career envelopes them.
John Dos Passos quotes: The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armour of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. -John Dos Passos The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armour of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. -John Dos Passos
John Dos Passos quotes: In this country where an hour's train ride will take you from Siberian snow into African desert, unity of population is hardly to be expected. In this country where an hour's train ride will take you from Siberian snow into African desert, unity of population is hardly to be expected.
John Dos Passos quotes: The terrible thing about having New York go stale on you is that there's nowhere else. It's the top of the world. 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 quotes: I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe. I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe.
John Dos Passos quotes: But what's the good of freedom? What can you do with it? What one wants is to live well and have a beautiful house and be respected by people. But what's the good of freedom? What can you do with it? What one wants is to live well and have a beautiful house and be respected by people.
John Dos Passos quotes: What is the use being a big man if you are wrong? What is the use being a big man if you are wrong?
John Dos Passos quotes: Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.
John Dos Passos quotes: Print so easily spins a web of the commonplace over the fine outlines of life. Print so easily spins a web of the commonplace over the fine outlines of life.
John Dos Passos quotes: Curiosity urges you on-driving force. Curiosity urges you on-driving force.
John Dos Passos quotes: self respect. self reliance. self control. self respect. self reliance. self control.
John Dos Passos quotes: War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting. War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting.
John Dos Passos quotes: If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.
John Dos Passos quotes: A writer ... whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation. 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 quotes: People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them. People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.
John Dos Passos quotes: Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes. Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.
John Dos Passos quotes: Sex is a slotmachine. Sex is a slotmachine.

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