"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 past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.“
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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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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
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"You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you."
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"I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me."
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"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."
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"Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity."
-Lord Acton
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