Quotes by John Dos Passos

John Dos Passos

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

Journey

Men

Self

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

Feels Right

Kids

Men

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.

Men

Order

Relief

A set of ideas, a point of view, a frame of reference is in space only an intersection, the state of affairs at some given momentin the consciousness of one man or many men, but in time it has evolving form, virtually organic extension. In time ideas can be thought of as sprouting, growing, maturing, bringing forth seed and dying like plants.

Knowledge

Men

Views

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.

Being Alone

Break Up

Change

Curiosity urges you on-driving force.

Curiosity

Driving

Force

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

Able

Democracy

Freedom

Eh Bien you like this sacred pig of a country?” asked Marco. “Why not? I like it anywhere. It’s all the same, in France you are paid badly and live well; here you are paid well and live badly.

Country

Immigration

Pigs

Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are driven to the written record by a pressing need to find answers to the riddles of today…. In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men’s reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional Now that blocks good thinking.

Art

Block

Past

Experiments in the visual arts (the invention of new ways of seeing things), are made because, due to the way the apparatus that makes up the mind is made, old processes and patterns have continually to be broken up in order to make it possible to perceive the new aspects and arrangements of evolving consciousness. The great enemy of intelligence is complacency.

Art

Broken

Order

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Able

Air

America

Army

Art

Attitude

Beach

Being Alone

Believe

Block

Book

Boss

Break Up

Broken

Cancer

Careers

Change

Character

Civilization

Coffee

Contemplation

Country

Crazy

Creative

Curiosity

Debt

Democracy

Different

Dirty

Driving

Easter

Eating

Ems

Envelopes

Europe

Events

Fall

Feels Right

Fifty

Fighting

Force

Freedom

Giving

Gun

Heart

Hell

High Standards

Humanity

Humans

Husband

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Quotes by John Dos Passos

John Dos Passos

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

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

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.

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.

Curiosity urges you on-driving force.

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

Eh Bien you like this sacred pig of a country?” asked Marco. “Why not? I like it anywhere. It’s all the same, in France you are paid badly and live well; here you are paid well and live badly.

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