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> [“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 and even, perhaps, feel affection for him. Then, the moment he was asleep, cut his throat.…](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/)

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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/)

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> [“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/)

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> [“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/)

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> [“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/)

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> [“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/)

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> [“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/)

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> [“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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