John Dos Passos Quotes

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.
John Dos Passos

Friends, Small, Old

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

Love, Work, Money

Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.
John Dos Passos

Women, Down, Hell

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.
John Dos Passos

Special, Hell, Works

We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.
John Dos Passos

Work, Strength, Eat

A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right.
John Dos Passos

Work, Kids, Himself

Accidents will happen in the best regulated families.
John Dos Passos

Best, Happen, Accidents

Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.
John Dos Passos

Movies, May, Eyes

It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you.
John Dos Passos

Freedom, Joy, Worth

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.
John Dos Passos

Choose, Careers

Sex is a slotmachine.
John Dos Passos

U.S.A. is the speech of the people.
John Dos Passos

What is the use being a big man if you are wrong?
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 to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.
John Dos Passos

Society, Ugly, Possible

If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.
John Dos Passos

Romantic, Successful, Long

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.
John Dos Passos

Work, Rather, Individual

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. 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

Men, Strong, Mind

The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves.
John Dos Passos

Find, Speak, Themselves

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: January 14, 1896

Died: September 28, 1970

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