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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Susan Sontag

Freak Show

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Sontag, Susan. "Freak Show." The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 1973.

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The more money an American accumulates the less interesting he himself becomes.

Gore Vidal

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Vidal, Gore. "H. Hughes." The New York Review of Books, 20 Apr. 1972.

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Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism-victimless collecting, as it were... In a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments.

Susan Sontag

Melancholy Objects

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Sontag, Susan. "Melancholy Objects." The New York Review of Books, 18 Apr. 1974.

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Some sense of religious mission is part of being American.

John Updike

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Updike, John. Quoted in "God's Country" by Michael Wood. New York Book Review, 29 Feb. 1996.

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