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It was the ponderous battering ram of his novels that opened the way through the genteel reticences of American nineteenth-century fiction. . . Without [Theodore] Dreiser's treading out a path for naturalism none of us would have had a chance to publish.

Source: In The New York Public Library Book of 20th Century American Quotations, by Stephen Donadio, 1992.
-- 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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