Car Quotes by J. G. Ballard

9 Car quotes by J. G. Ballard

J. G. Ballard’s dystopian eye turns to cars in nine brief statements, each hinting at deeper cultural undercurrents. The collection is short, yet it offers a taste of his speculative lens on modern transport.

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The car as we know it is on the way out.

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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…

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There are signs, I think, that people aren't satisfied by consumerism: that people resent the fact that the most moral decision in…

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The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a…

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No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway's postwar…

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A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status -- all…

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'What was being on the moon literally like?' [. . .] 'Being on the moon?' His tired gaze inspected the narrow street…

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The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a…

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Art is the principal way in which the human mind has tried to remake the world in a way that makes sense.…

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The suburbs dream of violence.

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I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai.

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Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will helpthe inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out…

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Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic.

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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

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I work for three or four hours a day, in the late morning and early afternoon. Then I go out for a walk and…

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Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days.…

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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It…

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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is…

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