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“What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.”

W. H. Auden · Art

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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

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