John Dos Passos (1896–1970) novelist, playwright, poet, journalist, painter
"Grosz Comes to America," Esquire, 1936
“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.”
Interview, Feb 3 1964, reproduced in Talks With Authors, ed. Charles F. Madden
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