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Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock but its ultimate function is to ennoble.

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Marya Mannes
Age: 85 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 14
Died: 1990
Died: September 13
Author
Journalist
Function
Ultimate
Please
Art
Titillate
Sometimes
Ennoble
Excite
Entertain
Shock

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No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a clean bomb yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.
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A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax no greater liability than a command of language.
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The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.
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