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Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.
— John Dos Passos
The world's becoming a museum of socialist failures.
— 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 estate?
— John Dos Passos
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
Git an eyeful of cesspool alley the land of opportunity.
— John Dos Passos
A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right.
— John Dos Passos
What's the use, there never was a woman living who could understand political ideas.
— John Dos Passos
U.S.A. is the speech of the people.
— John Dos Passos
Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.
— John Dos Passos
Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.
— John Dos Passos
Anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write.
— John Dos Passos
A nation in which the centralized power and the separate communities work only to nullify each other.
— John Dos Passos
So many Americans felt that their neighbor had no right to know more than they did.
— John Dos Passos
Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind.
— John Dos Passos
Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of.
— John Dos Passos
Individuality is freedom lived.
— John Dos Passos
all right we are two nations
— John Dos Passos
Mealtime's the only time I get to devote to the things of the spirit.
— John Dos Passos
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
I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.
— John Dos Passos
If there are no permanent standards, there is no criticism possible.
— John Dos Passos
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
With people who are young and aren't scared you can do lots.
— John Dos Passos
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
Between Don Quixote the mystic and Sancho Panza the sensualist there is no middle ground.
— John Dos Passos
With people like that we needn't despair of civilisation,
— John Dos Passos
How do I get to Broadway?...I want to get to the center of things.
— John Dos Passos
Accidents will happen in the best regulated families.
— John Dos Passos
It's easy to forget how central the French people are in everything we mean when we say Europe.
— John Dos Passos
This ain't a war ... It's a goddam whorehouse.
— John Dos Passos
Everything published goes down the same chute out of the overbright glare of publicity into oblivion.
— John Dos Passos
Letters are largely written to get things out of your system.
— John Dos Passos
People do not choose a career; the career envelopes them.
— 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
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
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
I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe.
— John Dos Passos
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
What is the use being a big man if you are wrong?
— John Dos Passos
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
Curiosity urges you on-driving force.
— John Dos Passos
self respect. self reliance. self control.
— John Dos Passos
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
If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.
— John Dos Passos
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
People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.
— John Dos Passos
Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.
— John Dos Passos
Sex is a slotmachine.
— John Dos Passos