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We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope. . .

Source: Against Interpretation, The Imagination of Disaster, 1966.
-- Susan Sontag, (Jan 16 1933-2004), US author, critic; She was one of the most influential contemporary American critics, utilizing new sensibility to evaluate art.

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