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" Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. "

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" The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing. "

" AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them. "

" Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims. "

" The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. "

" To photograph is to confer importance. "

" In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it. "

" In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation. "

" Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. "

" Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance. "

" The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. "

" Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. "

" The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste. "

" It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. "

" Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. "

" The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. "

" Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. "

" A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning. "

" As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure. "

" Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. "

" Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. "

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" Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. "

" Sanity is a cozy lie. "

" What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. "

" Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. "

" Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph. "

" Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. "

" Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech. "

" A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it. "

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" Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits. "

" Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it. "