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

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We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the...

We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the...

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

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

Accidents will happen in the best regulated families.

Accidents will happen in the best regulated families.

Individuality is freedom lived

Individuality is freedom lived

Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food

Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food

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

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

Sex is a slotmachine.

Sex is a slotmachine.

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

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

Love is cheap. You can buy it anywhere. Lives are cheap. It's money that's dear....

Love is cheap. You can buy it anywhere. Lives are cheap. It's money that's dear....

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

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

The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in...

The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in...

If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to...

If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to...

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all...

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all...

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

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

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

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

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of...

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of...

A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage...

A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage...

A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right.

A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right.

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

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