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

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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...

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.

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion...

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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.

Sex is a slotmachine.

Sex is a slotmachine.

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...

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

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

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

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 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...

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...

Accidents will happen in the best regulated families.

Accidents will happen in the best regulated families.