Quotes by John Dos Passos

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

“Individuality is freedom lived”

“Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food”

“People dont choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.”

“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.”

“In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under mens reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present.”

“We are two nations,”

“Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals”

“A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.”

“Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.”

“Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.”

Its almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you.

Love is cheap. You can buy it anywhere. Lives are cheap. Its money thats dear. You have to work days and sit up nights thinking how to make money.

If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose Id have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I havent even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.