Quotes by J. G. Ballard

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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  • A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.
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  • After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.
    Crash (1973)
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  • An arts degree is like a diploma in origami.
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  • Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.
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  • But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good thing.
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  • Deep assignments run through all our lives; there are no coincidences.
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  • Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.
    The complete short stories (2001)
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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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  • Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire.
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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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  • God was a clever idea ... The human race came up with a winner there.
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  • I admired anyone who could unsettle people.
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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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  • I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
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  • I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.
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  • 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!
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  • I wanted to rub the human race in its own vomit, and force it to look in the mirror.
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  • I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
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What are the most famous quotes from J. G. Ballard?

The two most famous quotes from J. G. Ballard are:

  • "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..."
  • "A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction."

When did J. G. Ballard live?

J. G. Ballard was born in 1930 and died in the year 2009.