"Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art."
-Susan Sontag
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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.“
-Susan Sontag
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"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art."
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"For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied."
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"Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas."
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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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"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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