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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.

Quote by John Dos Passos about friendship, old, olderness

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

Quote by John Dos Passos about advertising, eyes

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.

Quote by John Dos Passos about haven, people

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

Quote by John Dos Passos about writers, hell

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

Quote by John Dos Passos about value, army, joy, contentment

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.

Quote by John Dos Passos about love, money, commerce, thinking, day, work, contentment

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

Quote by John Dos Passos about career, people

Sex is a slotmachine.

Quote by John Dos Passos about sex

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.

Quote by John Dos Passos about creation, work, world

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.

Quote by John Dos Passos about mind, chaos, moral, man

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.

Quote by John Dos Passos about nation, people

Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention. The professional writer discovers some aspect of the world and invents out of the speech of his time some...

Quote by John Dos Passos about invention, originality, writers, writing, word, world, time

U.S.A. is the speech of the people.

Quote by John Dos Passos about nation, people

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.

Quote by John Dos Passos about things, work

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

Quote by John Dos Passos about man, bad, use, being, contentment

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

Quote by John Dos Passos about woman, heads, hell, contentment

Everything is relative, is the Internet fast. Not for most people. Is it always on, yes, for cable modem and DSL users but that represents a tiny percentage of users.

Quote by John Patrick about computers, fasting, internet, people

I don't feel any older now than when I was 70.

Quote by John Patrick about olderness

IBM has taken a leadership role in this area and is prepared to be a technology partner with companies around the world to take advantage of these new developments.

Quote by John Patrick about companies, technology, leadership, world

Many dotcoms recruited people from existing companies who were quite experienced in finance, marketing, distribution and other disciplines but not necessarily experienced in the Web culture.

Quote by John Patrick about people, companies, culture