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Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disast

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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We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters. – Susan Sontag

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Fantasy
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Susan Sontag
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A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of spirit over matter. – Susan Sontag

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Psychology
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I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it. – Jean M. Auel

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There were two kinds of physicists in Berlin: on the one hand there was Einstein, and on the other all the rest. – Rudolph Ladenburg

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life, 1860

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Theres a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. – Fred Saberhagen

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