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Kind Quotes by J. G. Ballard
- Hell is out of fashion - institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the gaps between…
- People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city, but, instead, huddled…
- Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?
- 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…
- A kind of banalization of celebrity has occurred: we are now offered an instant, ready-to-mix fame as nutritious as packet soup.
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- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
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- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
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- When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. — Margaret Atwood
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