Quotes by J. G. Ballard with reality

J. G. Ballard

British author

Lived from: 1930 - 2009

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 15 november 1930 Died: 19 april 2009

  • Put a higher value on yourself. Being hyper-realistic about everything is too simple a get-out.
  • People will begin to explore all the sidestreets of sexual experience, but they will do it intellectually. . . . Sex won't take place in the bed, necessarily--it'll take place in the head!
  • Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.
  • I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead - the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol!
  • What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
  • Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?
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  • Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.
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  • Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.
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  • Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
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  • Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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