“ Was born in a brick farmhouse in Lancaster Mass,he walked through the woods one wintercrunching through the shinycrusted snowstumbling into a little dell where a warm spring wasand found the grass gre… John Dos Passos
“ 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
“ But the workingpeople, the common people, they won't allow it.' 'It's the common people who get most fun out of the torture and execution of great men.... If it's not going too far back I'd like to kn… John Dos Passos
“ Do you know how long God took to destroy the Tower of Babel, folks? Seven minutes. Do you know how long the Lord God took to destroy Babylon and Nineveh? Seven minutes. There’s more wickedness in one… 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. 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. John Dos Passos
“ Chrisfield looked straight ahead of him. He did not feel lonely any more now that he was marching in ranks again. His feet beat the ground in time with the other feet. He would not have to think wheth… John Dos Passos
“ While there is a lower class I am of it, while there is a criminal class I am of it, while there is a soul in prison I am not free. John Dos Passos
“ Spain as a modern centralized nation is an illusion, a very unfortunate one; for the present atrophy, the desolating resultlessness of a century of revolution, may very well be due in large measure to… John Dos Passos
“ If any man has a ghostBourne has a ghosta tiny twisted unscared ghost in a black cloak hopping along the grimy old brick and brownstone streets still left in downtown New York, John Dos Passos
“ You dont like the stars in Old Glory Then go back to your land across the sea To the land from which you came Whatever be its name John Dos Passos
“ And the Sunday the bishop came you couldn't see Halley's Comet any more and you saw the others being confirmed and it lasted for hours because there were a lot of little girls being confirmed too and… John Dos Passos
“ Think of what it was they were applauding, he said at last. My message today was a message of death for our young men. How strange it seems to applaud that. John Dos Passos
“ So many Americans felt that their neighbor had no right to know more than they did. John Dos Passos
“ The twentieth century will be American. American thought will dominate it. American progress will give it color and direction. American deeds will make it illustrious. Civilization will never lose its… John Dos Passos
