Best J. G. Ballard Quotations
- A visit to Père Lachaise in Paris adds a year to one's life Add
- There is a British pop group called God. At a recent book signing the lead singer introduced himself and gave me a cassette. I have… Book
- Deep assignments run through all our lives; there are no coincidences. All
- Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession… Activity
- I wanted to rub the human race in its own vomit, and force it to look in the mirror. Force
- They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never… Acquaintance
- The human race sleepwalked to oblivion, thinking only of the corporate logos on it's shroud. Corporate
- Put a higher value on yourself. Being hyper-realistic about everything is too simple a get-out. Higher
- Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime. Lasts
- I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst. Burst
- I only realised why I keep living in Shepperton when I returned to China. All the people who moved there had come from places just… All
- I admired anyone who could unsettle people. Admired
- The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that no amount of… Adult
- I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind.… All
- I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just… Act
- There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I… Art
- The Internet is an amazing development. Amazing
- Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks… Bed
- During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers… Advertising
- I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai. China
- In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in… Able
- I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to… All
- I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much. Admire
- In March 1943, my parents, four-year-old sister and I were interned with other foreign civilians at Lunghua camp, a former teacher training college outside Shanghai,… August
- Morality covers our conduct, not what goes on inside our heads. Conduct
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