Priestly Society

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“Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)

“One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this economic system, which has bestowed these unprecedented liberties, most cherished in the form of physical mobility and material prosperity, depends on encouraging people to defy limits.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)