John Dos Passos

It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#army #been #freedom #gives #having

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

— John Dos Passos

#choose #engulfed #people #their #them

Sex is a slotmachine. ↗

— John Dos Passos

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. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#better #brick #creation #each #edifice

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. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#cannot #chaos #compulsion #ethical #invent

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. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#any #anything #find #given #into

U.S.A. is the speech of the people. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#speech

What is the use being a big man if you are wrong? ↗

— John Dos Passos

#big #man #use #wrong #you

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

#ago #conviction #drunkard #even #got