"I think the satirist is always basically optimistic. The satirist's complaint about society is always that it doesn't measure up to a fairly high ideal he has. I think that even the bitterest satirist, even a man like Swift, was probably rather an optimist at heart."
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Interview, Feb 3 1964, reproduced in Talks With Authors, ed. Charles F. Madden
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John Dos Passos
John Roderigo Dos Passos (January 14 1896 – September 28, 1970) was an American novelist and artist.
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