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John Dos Passos Quotes

John Dos Passos quotes

American Novelist January 14, 1896 – September 28, 1970

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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
The young man walks by himself, fast but not fast enough, far but not far enough (faces slide out of sight, talk trails into tattered scraps, footsteps tap fainter in alleys); he must catch the last subway, the streetcar, the bus, run up the gangplanks of all the steamboats, register at all the hotels, work in the cities, answer the wantads, learn the trades, take up the jobs, live in all the boardinghouses, sleep in all the beds. One bed is not enough, one job is not enough, one life is not... John Dos Passos
John Dos Passos quote: " life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of..."
... life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats. John Dos Passos
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
John Dos Passos quote: "Accidents will happen in the best regulated families."
Accidents will happen in the best regulated families. John Dos Passos
They have clubbed us off the streets they are stronger they are rich they hire and fire the politicians the newspapereditors the old judges the small men with reputations the collegepresidents the wardheelers (listen businessmen collegepresidents judges America will not forget her betrayers) they hire the men with guns the uniforms the policecars the patrolwagons all right you have won you will kill the brave men our friends tonight (author's punctuation) John Dos Passos
...and the Sunday the bishop came you couldn't see Halley's Comet any more and you saw the others being confirmed and it lasted for hours because there were a lot of little girls being confirmed too and all you could hear was mumble mumble this thy child mumble mumble this thy child and you wondered if you'd be alive next time Halley's Comet came round John Dos Passos
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
John Dos Passos quote: "self respect. self reliance. self control."
self respect. self reliance. self control. John Dos Passos
Why, lies are like a sticky juice overspreading the world, a living, growing flypaper to catch and gum the wings of every human soul. . . And the little helpless buzzings of honest, liberal, kindly people, aren't they like the thin little noise flies make when they're caught? John Dos Passos
John Dos Passos quote: "We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the..."
We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work. John Dos Passos
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
John Dos Passos quote: "A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel..."
A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right. John Dos Passos
John Dos Passos quote: "Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the..."
Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes. John Dos Passos
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

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