John Dos Passos

But you’re out of another world old kid … You ought to live on top of the Woolworth Building in an apartment made of cutglass and cherry blossoms. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#city-life #manhattan-transfer #nature #urban #life

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

— John Dos Passos

#forced #hell #own #special #their

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

#buy #cheap #days #dear #how

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. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#get #strength #work

Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#down #fine #got #hell #once

A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#got #himself #his #kids #man

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. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#brutally #creeps #express #flesh #get

Accidents will happen in the best regulated families. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#best #families #happen #regulated #will

Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#certainly #display #dull #eyes #may

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. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#changes #constitutes #distasteful #friends #growing