Mind Quotes by J. G. Ballard

8 Mind quotes by J. G. Ballard

J. G. Ballard’s dystopian imagination condenses into eight brief musings on the mind. The collection offers a compact dose of futuristic introspection, perfect for a quick mental escape.

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I define Inner Space as an imaginary realm in which on the one hand the outer world of reality, and on the…

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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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I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional…

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In his mind Vaughan saw the whole world dying in a simultaneous automobile disaster, millions of vehicles hurled together in a terminal…

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I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds.

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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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Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration…

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I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.

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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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