154 Quotes by John Dos Passos

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    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.

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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

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

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