Author: 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Accidents will happen in the best regulated families.

Accidents will happen in the best regulated families.

- John Dos Passos

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

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

- John Dos Passos

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

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

- 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

- John Dos Passos

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