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# John Bayley

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##  Quotes by John Bayley

> [Kitsch of course only comes into existence when we recognize how and why it works.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-bayley/kitsch-of-course-only-comes-into-existence-when-we-recognize-how-and/)

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> [The happiest marriages are full of alternative lives, lived in the head, unknown to the partner.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-bayley/the-happiest-marriages-are-full-of-alternative-lives-lived-in-the/)

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> [Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-bayley/vermeer-s-woman-reading-a-letter-is-as-full-of-latent-or-subliminal/)

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> [One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-bayley/one-function-of-art-is-to-de-kitschify-kitsch/)

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