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" Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech. "
Susan Sontag
Remains
Form
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" Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. "
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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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" Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. "
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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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