John Dos Passos Quotes

• People don’t choose their careers. They are engulfed by them.

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• Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain’t pinned down they’re hell.

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• What is the use being a big man if you are wrong?

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• 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.

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• U.S.A. is the speech of the people.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Sex is a slotmachine.

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• People don’t choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

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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.

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• It’s almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you.

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

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• 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.

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• Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.

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• 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.

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• Accidents will happen in the best regulated families.

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• 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.

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• A man’s got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right.

   

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John Dos Passos (19)

Birth:	14th January, 1896
Death:	28th September, 1970
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist

About

John Roderigo Dos Passos was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an American novelist and artist. He earned a BA degree in English from Harvard University in 1916. During World War I, he was an ambulance driver for American volunteer groups in Paris and Italy before joining the United States Army Medical Corps. He wrote several novels include: One Man's Initiation, Three Soldiers, A pushcart at the curb, Streets of night, Manhattan Transfer, Adventures of a Young Man, Number One, The grand design, Chosen country, The great days, and Midcentury. He is best known for his U.S.A. trilogy, which consists of the novels The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money. An artist, he created his own cover art for his books, was influenced by modernism in 1920s Paris and painted. Spence's Point, his Virginia estate, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1971.

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