A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right.
Quote by John Dos Passos about man, rightness, work
Quotes by John Dos Passos
19 quotes by John Dos Passos
John Dos Passos - american novelist
Was born on 14 jan 1896.
Died on 28 sep 1970, at 74 years old.
Died on 28 sep 1970, at 74 years old.
Origin country: United States
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.
Quote by John Dos Passos about man, society, order
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.
Quote by John Dos Passos about friendship, old, olderness
Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.
Quote by John Dos Passos about advertising, eyes
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.
Quote by John Dos Passos about haven, people
If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.
Quote by John Dos Passos about writers, hell
It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you.
Quote by John Dos Passos about value, joy
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.
Quote by John Dos Passos about love, money, commerce, thinking, day, work
People don't choose their careers, they are engulfed by them.
Quote by John Dos Passos about career, people
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.
Quote by John Dos Passos about creation, work, world
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.
Quote by John Dos Passos about mind, chaos, moral, man
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.
Quote by John Dos Passos about nation, people
Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention. The professional writer discovers some aspect of the world and invents out of the speech of his time some...
Quote by John Dos Passos about invention, originality, writers, writing, world, time
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.
Quote by John Dos Passos about things, work
What is the use being a big man if you are wrong.
Quote by John Dos Passos about man, bad, use, being
Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.
Quote by John Dos Passos about woman, heads, hell
