Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Thomas Merton

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Topic

Purpose of art Art

Author

Thomas Merton

Source

No Man Is an Island

Genre

Religious literature

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

Occupation

Monk Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Merton, Thomas. No Man Is an Island. Clonmore & Reynolds/Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1955.

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The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.

Thornton Wilder

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Topic
Conflict in marriage Marriage
Speaker
Mrs. Molloy

Author

Thornton Wilder
Source
The Matchmaker
Medium
Play
Genre
Comedy (play)
Language
English
Time
1954 1950s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Wilder, Thornton. The Matchmaker. 4 Nov. 1954, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, act 2.

Current Citation

Wilder, Thornton. "The Matchmaker." Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2020, act 2.

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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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Topic
Modern art Power of art Art

Author

Susan Sontag
Source
Freak Show The New York Review of Books
Medium
Essay Magazine
Language
English
Time
1973 1970s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

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