"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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"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."
-Susan Sontag
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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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"I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams."
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"Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."
-A. A. Milne
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"Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see."
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"
-John Keats
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"I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"Wit is educated insolence."
-Aristotle
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"In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office."
-Ambrose Bierce
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