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> [“The ambiguous role of the car crash needs no elaboration—apart from our own deaths, the car crash is probably the most dramatic event in our lives, and in many cases the two will coincide. Aside from the fact that we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-ballard-2/the-ambiguous-role-of-the-car-crash-needs-no-elaboration-apart-from/)

[J.G. Ballard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-ballard-2/)

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> [“The media landscape of the present day is a map in search of a territory. A huge volume of sensational and often toxic imagery inundates our minds, much of it fictional in content. How do we make sense of this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-ballard-2/the-media-landscape-of-the-present-day-is-a-map-in-search-of-a/)

[J.G. Ballard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-ballard-2/)

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## More by J.G. Ballard

> [“Beyond the silver span of the motor bridge lay basins of cracked mud the size of ballrooms - models of a state of mind,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-ballard-2/beyond-the-silver-span-of-the-motor-bridge-lay-basins-of-cracked-mud/)

[J.G. Ballard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-ballard-2/)

> [“First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back to a state of childishness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-ballard-2/first-she-would-try-to-kill-him-but-failing-this-give-him-food-and/)

[J.G. Ballard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-ballard-2/)

> [“I love the smell of male urine and the reek of his groin on my bath towels after he’d had a shower”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-ballard-2/i-love-the-smell-of-male-urine-and-the-reek-of-his-groin-on-my-bath/)

[J.G. Ballard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-ballard-2/)

> [“Overhead the sky was dull and cloudless, a bland impassive blue, more the interior ceiling of some deep irrevocable psychosis than the storm-filled celestial…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-ballard-2/overhead-the-sky-was-dull-and-cloudless-a-bland-impassive-blue-more/)

[J.G. Ballard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-ballard-2/)

> [“Recently she had become intrigued by the admiring glances of other women. The admiration of her own sex existed on a higher and more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-ballard-2/recently-she-had-become-intrigued-by-the-admiring-glances-of-other/)

[J.G. Ballard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-ballard-2/)

> [“The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-ballard-2/the-bourgeois-novel-is-the-greatest-enemy-of-truth-and-honesty-that/)

[J.G. Ballard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-ballard-2/)

> [“Remember, the police are neutral - they hate everybody.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-ballard-2/remember-the-police-are-neutral-they-hate-everybody/)

[J.G. Ballard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-ballard-2/)

> [“Jim knew that he was awake and asleep at the same time, dreaming of the war and yet dreamed of by the war.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-ballard-2/jim-knew-that-he-was-awake-and-asleep-at-the-same-time-dreaming-of/)

[J.G. Ballard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-ballard-2/)

> [“I am looking into a silent world.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-ballard-2/i-am-looking-into-a-silent-world/)

[J.G. Ballard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-ballard-2/)

> [“(Logically–for what had a more gloomy prognosis than life?–every morning one should say to one's friends: 'I grieve for your irrevocable death,' as to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-ballard-2/logically-for-what-had-a-more-gloomy-prognosis-than-life-every/)

[J.G. Ballard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-ballard-2/)

> [“These people were the first to master a new kind of late twentieth-century life. They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-ballard-2/these-people-were-the-first-to-master-a-new-kind-of-late-twentieth/)

[J.G. Ballard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-ballard-2/)

> [“His unconscious was rapidly becoming a well-stocked pantheon of tutelary phobias and obsessions, homing onto his already over-burdened psyche like lost telepaths.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-ballard-2/his-unconscious-was-rapidly-becoming-a-well-stocked-pantheon-of/)

[J.G. Ballard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-ballard-2/)

> [“The long triangular grooves on the car had been formed within the death of an unknown creature, its vanished identity abstracted in terms of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-ballard-2/the-long-triangular-grooves-on-the-car-had-been-formed-within-the/)

[J.G. Ballard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-ballard-2/)

> [“Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-ballard-2/later-as-he-sat-on-his-balcony-eating-the-dog-dr-robert-laing/)

[J.G. Ballard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-ballard-2/)

> [“One rule in life", he murmured to himself. "If you can smell garlic, everything is alright.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-ballard-2/one-rule-in-life-he-murmured-to-himself-if-you-can-smell-garlic/)

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