"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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"Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.“
-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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"I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams."
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"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default."
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"I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy."
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"There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose."
-Kin Hubbard
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"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."
-John Dewey
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"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."
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"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."
-Ambrose Bierce
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