I think the satirist is always basically optimistic. The sa… - John Dos Passos

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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.

John Dos Passos

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John Roderigo Dos Passos (January 14 1896 – September 28, 1970) was an American novelist and artist.

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