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John Dos Passos Quotes
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Talk is a pure art. Its only limits are the patience of listeners who, when they get tired, can always pay for their coffee or change it with a friendly waiter and walk out (John Dos Passos Quotes)
Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind (John Dos Passos Quotes)
A novel is a commodity that fulfills a certain need; people need to buy daydreams like they need to buy ice cream or aspirin or gin. They even need to buy a pinch of intellectual catnip now and then to liven up their thoughts (John Dos Passos Quotes)
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 Quotes)
A man’s got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right (John Dos Passos Quotes)
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 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 Quotes)
It’s almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you (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 (John Dos Passos Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain’t pinned down they’re hell (John Dos Passos Quotes)
Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension (John Dos Passos Quotes)
We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work (John Dos Passos Quotes)
Remember that it’s never a crime in the face of humanity and enlightenment to distribute the works of the great humanists among the merchants and moneychangers of this godforsaken country... You better slip me the dough (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 (John Dos Passos Quotes)
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 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 (John Dos Passos Quotes)
There’s something wonderfully exciting about the quiet sing song of an aeroplane overhead with all the guns in creation lighting out at it, and searchlights feeling their way across the sky like antennae, and the earth shaking snort of the bombs and the whimper of shrapnel pieces when they come down to patter on the roof (John Dos Passos Quotes)
When I was a kid I used to tell myself the moon was a silver gong and if I could climb high enough to beat on it with both hands all my wishes would come true (John Dos Passos Quotes)
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 Quotes)
A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey (John Dos Passos Quotes)
Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats (John Dos Passos Quotes)
It’s rather grisly, isn’t 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)
Time has an undertaking establishment on every block and drives his coffin nails faster than the steam riveters rivet or the stenographers type or the tickers tick out fours and eights and dollar signs and ciphers (John Dos Passos Quotes)
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