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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.
— John Dos Passos
Tags: savage, ugly, society, man

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It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you.
— John Dos Passos
Tags: joy, patriotism, you, freedom
Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.
— John Dos Passos
Tags: may, advertising, movies, eyes
Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.
— John Dos Passos
Tags: hell, boss, you, women
The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.
— John Dos Passos
Tags: view, better, world, work
If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.
— John Dos Passos
Tags: people, romantic, me, myself
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