It was the ponderous battering ram of his novels that opened the way through the genteel reticences of American nineteenth-century fiction. . . Without Theodore Dreiser's treading out a path for naturalism none of us would have had a chance to publish.
More Quotes from John Dos Passos:
People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.John Dos Passos
What is the use being a big man if you are wrong?
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
Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.
John Dos Passos
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
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
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: America Quotes, Chance QuotesBased on Keywords: battering, dreisers, genteel, naturalism, nineteenth-century, ponderous, ram, reticences, theodore, treading
I'm always worried about my money for some reason.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar
Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.
Helen Reddy