I think the satirist is always basically optimistic. The satirist's complaint about society is always that it doesn't … - John Dos Passos

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John Dos Passos

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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