Best J. G. Ballard Sayings
- I accepted that a new kind of hate had emerged, silent and disciplined, a racism tempered by loyalty cards and PIN numbers. Shopping was now… Accepted
- Au revoir, jewelled alligators and white hotels, hallucinatory forests, farewell. Alligators
- A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status -- all these in one… Aggression
- It was an excess of fantasy that killed the old United States, the whole Mickey Mouse and Marilyn thing, the most brilliant technologies devoted to… Been
- Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic. Belongs
- Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a… All
- After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident. Accident
- Sooner or later, everything turns into television. Everything Turns
- I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend… Believe
- Surrender to a logic more powerful than reason. Logic
- Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by door-handles; the chests… Almanac
- Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire. Blood
- Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence. Burial
- Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now? Dreamer
- The ultimate concept car will move so fast, even at rest, as to be invisible. Car
- Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time. Anything erected there, a city, a pyramid,… Adolf
- All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in their own right. The past, whether Renaissance… All
- In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War and Peace. All
- A kind of banalization of celebrity has occurred: we are now offered an instant, ready-to-mix fame as nutritious as packet soup. Banalization
- The endless newsreel clips of nuclear explosions that we saw on TV in the 1960s (were) a powerful incitement to the psychotic imagination, sanctioning *everything*. Clip
- Yet she felt an impostor, and already the mask had begun to bite into her face. Begun
- I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic Aesthetic
- If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or… Asks
- The twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary association of enlightened citizens has died forever. We… Association
- Sooner or later, all games become serious. All
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