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" Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. "
Susan Sontag
Science Fiction
Disaster
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" I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams. "
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" Books are funny little portable pieces of thought. "
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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. "
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" To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt. "
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" Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois. "
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" Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. "
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" 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. "
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" The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is. "
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" Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. "
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" 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. "
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" What we need is to use what we have. "
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" Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. "
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" What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. "
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" Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them. "
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" Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. "
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" The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means. "
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" Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. "
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" The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility. "
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" 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. "
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" The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication. "
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" In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation. "
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" Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. "
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" The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. "
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" The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste. "
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" Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance. "
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" Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others. "
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" A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it. "
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