Whole Quotes by J. G. Ballard

8 Whole quotes by J. G. Ballard

J. G. Ballard’s eight terse lines deliver his characteristic dystopian edge, probing how contemporary life can feel fragmented yet strives for wholeness.

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The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric.…

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I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something…

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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of…

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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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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling…

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The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with…

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There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying,…

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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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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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