Quotes by John Dos Passos

"We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work."
— John Dos Passos
"If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the misconceptions, the omissions, the failures that any finished work of art implies."
— John Dos Passos
"I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps."
— John Dos Passos
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John Roderigo Dos Passos (/dɒsˈpæsəs, -sɒs/; January 14, 1896 – September 28, 1970) was an American novelist, most notable for his U.S.A. trilogy. Born in Chicago, Dos Passos graduated from Harvard Co...