"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 truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.“
-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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"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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"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
-Mark Twain
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"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
-Oscar Wilde
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"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."
-John Keats
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"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."
-Khalil Gibran
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"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not."
-Carl Jung
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