Humans Quotes by J. G. Ballard

8 Humans quotes by J. G. Ballard

J. G. Ballard’s speculative eye turns everyday behavior into a mirror of future anxieties. In eight terse lines he captures the uncanny ways technology reshapes identity.

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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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God was a clever idea ... The human race came up with a winner there.

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Human beings today are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political and advertising conglomerates, vast…

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Nonetheless, Scranton had travelled in space. He had known the loneliness of separation from all other human beings, he had gazed at…

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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…

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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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For the sake of my children and grandchildren, I hope that the human talent for self-destruction can be successfully controlled, or at…

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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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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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A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll…

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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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