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

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  • If you can smell garlic, everything is all right.
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  • If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive.
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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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  • My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race.
    Crash (1973)
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  • Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.
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  • 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!
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  • Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic.
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  • 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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  • Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.
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  • Put a higher value on yourself. Being hyper-realistic about everything is too simple a get-out.
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  • Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
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  • Selfish men make the best lovers. They're prepared to invest in the women's pleasures so that they can collect an even bigger dividend for themselves.
    Cocaine Nights (1996)
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  • Sooner or later, all games become serious.
    Super-Cannes (2000)
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  • Sooner or later, everything turns into television.
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  • Surrender to a logic more powerful than reason.
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  • The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.
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  • The car as we know it is on the way out.
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  • The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.
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  • The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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