Dreams Quotes by J. G. Ballard

8 Dreams quotes by J. G. Ballard

J. G. Ballard turned the ordinary into unsettling futures. In these eight quotes, his take on dreams probes the thin line between reality and imagined catastrophe, offering a quick taste of his visionary mind.

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The suburbs dream of violence.

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In the past we have always assumed that the external world around us has represented reality, however confusing or uncertain, and that…

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To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been…

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Nagasaki destroyed by the magic of science is the nearest man has yet approached to the realization of dreams that even during…

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The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that…

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Across the communication landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy.

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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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Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our…

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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…

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There are some people, who place enormous value on their home and feel that it defines them, that a stain on the carpet is…

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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…

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The suburbs dream of violence.

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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to…

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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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Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New World' suggested…

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