J.G. Ballard Quotes
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J.G. Ballard Famous Quotes & Sayings
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A terrorist bomb not only killed its victims, but forced a violent rift through time and space, and ruptured the logic that held the world together.
People no longer need enemies--in this millennium their great dream is to become victims. Only their psychopathies can set them free...
I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.
On the morning after the storm the body of a drowned giant was washed ashore on the beach five miles to the north-west of the city.
In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g.
This isn't just a shopping mall. It's more like ... "
"A religious experience?"
"Exactly! It's like going to church ...
"A religious experience?"
"Exactly! It's like going to church ...
If I don't write, I begin to feel unsettled and uneasy, as I gather people do who are not allowed to dream.
The staircase was deserted - the higher up the building the more reluctant were the residents to use the stairs, as if this in some way demeaned them.
A kind of banalization of celebrity has occurred: we are now offered an instant, ready-to-mix fame as nutritious as packet soup.
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
As I left, promising to mention her to my father, Olga said: Now you can play hide-and-seek in the whole
world.
world.
The city was a vast and stationary carousel, forever boarded by millions of would-be passengers who took their seats, waited and then dismounted.
I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds.
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.
After Freud's exploration within the psyche it is now the outer world of reality which must be quantified and eroticised
Our neighbours had happy childhoods to a man and still feel angry. Perhaps they resent never having had a chance to become perverse ...
Across the communication landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy.
Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.
Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives.
I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai.
Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.
Beyond the silver span of the motor bridge lay basins of cracked mud the size of ballrooms - models of a state of mind, a curvilinear labyrinth.
He walked into the bathroom, wincing at himself in the mirror, that always more tired older brother.
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!
After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.
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.
E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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.
Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?
Madness--that's all they have, after working sixteen hours a day, seven days a week. Going mad is their only way of staying sane.
Jim knew that he was awake and asleep at the same time, dreaming of the war and yet dreamed of by the war.
Police violence, I noted, was directly proportional to police boredom, and not to any resistance offered by protestors.
The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.
Already a sizable traffic jam blocked the Bund. Once again the crush and clutter of Shanghai had engulfed its invaders.
Consumerism is the one thing that gives us our sense of values. Consumerism is honest, and teaches us that everything good has a barcode.
I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic