# Quote — Robert Sheckley, Dimension of Miracles

> Once upon a time men resisted the implications of actuality. That day is gone. We know now that art is the thing itself together with its extensions into superfluity. Not pop art, I hasten to say, which sneers and exaggerates. This is popular art, which simply exists. This is the age in which we unconditionally accept the unacceptable, and thus proclaim the naturalness of our artificiality.”

- Author: [Robert Sheckley](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-sheckley.md)
- Book: [Dimension of Miracles](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-sheckley/dimension-of-miracles.md)
- Page: 187
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Sheckley#Dimension_of_Miracles_(1968)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-sheckley/dimension-of-miracles/once-upon-a-time

## More from this book

> A malfunction of this type can be cured only by changing the nature of the universe, which is, of course, impractical.

p. 34 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-sheckley/dimension-of-miracles/a-malfunction-of-this.md)

> Remember, similitude need not imply exactitude.

p. 159 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-sheckley/dimension-of-miracles/remember-similitude-need.md)

> The only thing to think over was Me, of course. And the real problem about Me was, What was I supposed to do? Was I meant to be nothing but God? I had tried the God business and found it too limited. It was a job for a simple-minded egomaniac. There had to be something else for me to do—something more meaningful, more expressive of my true self. I’m convinced of it! That is my problem, and that is the question I ask of you: What am I to do with myself?

p. 53 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-sheckley/dimension-of-miracles/the-only-thing.md)