John Dos Passos Short Quotes

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With people who are young and aren't scared you can do lots.

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

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Letters are largely written to get things out of your system.

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When you write about something you often never think of it again.

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Anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write.

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

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Mealtime's the only time I get to devote to the things of the spirit.

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I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe.

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

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We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.

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A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey.

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What's the use, there never was a woman living who could understand political ideas.

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Sex can be indicated with asterisks. I've always felt that was as good a way as any.

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Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.

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There's this strange schizophrenia in American publishing between fiction and nonfiction.

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Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of.

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It's easy to forget how central the French people are in everything we mean when we say Europe.

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

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I don't think I've lost very much sleep by what you would call the critical reception of my work.

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Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind.

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The only man that gets anything out of capitalism is a crook, an' he gets to be a millionaire in short order...

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The terrible thing about having New York go stale on you is that there's nowhere else. It's the top of the world.

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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.

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Men who have lost their conviction of what is good and what is bad find themselves without a sextant to check their position by.

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That is what we must make people feel... the catch in the throat, the wrench to steady the nerves, the determination to carry on.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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Shakespeare wouldn't have been any good if he'd stayed in Stratford. He had to go to London to be bathed in the full current of the Renaissance.

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