"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."

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Source : John Dos Passos (1964). “Occasions and protests”

John Dos Passos

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“Only Americans can hurt America.”
“I've been nominated for 12 Emmys, and we won - for 'Top Chef' - the only time I didn't go.”
“Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning than the Bolshevik, the self-styled Soviet regime.”
“We have to work together to do a better job than we did in the last few generations.”
“Most days I only go out to the post office or to get some food. Otherwise I work on my art or music. I check out the news, and generally spend a lot of time on Tumblr or Facebook or whatever.”

Source : Interview with Christian Filardo, logger.believermag.com. November 27, 2013.
“But as Shakespeareâ€™s Richard II boasts, â€˜Not all the water in the rough rude sea/Can wash the balm off from an anointed king.”
“It is not enough to simply "do your best". You must strive for perfection.”
“Sure, it's nice to win. But there's only one thing that's important to me and that's the money we're going to get, win or lose. . . . I don't love baseball, I like it. And to me, baseball means money, and that's all I care about.”

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