Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself. ✨ Mar…

Margaret Atwood
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Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself. ✨ Margaret Atwood (2006). Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood
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