John Dos Passos Quotes

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.

Individuality is freedom lived.

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.

Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.

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