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A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.

Source: In Simpson's Contemporary Quotations, by James B. Simpson, 1988.
-- John Dos Passos, (Jan 14 1896-1970), US writer; His reputation as a social historian and as a radical critic of the quality of American life rests primarily on his trilogy U.S.A.

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