amuse quotes

Why does one never hear of government funding for the preservation and encouragement of comic strips, girlie magazines and TV soap operas? Because these genres still hold the audience they were created to amuse and instruct.

-Updike,John Hoyer
  In the NewYork Review of Books,18 Jul.

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