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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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  • The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam...
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  • I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.
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  • In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!
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  • In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.
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