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One Quotes by J. G. Ballard
- I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or…
- Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good…
- I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as…
- Hell is out of fashion - institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the gaps between…
- It seems to me that what most of us have to fear for the future is not that something terrible is going to happen, but…
- Actually, the suburbs are far more sinister places than most city dwellers imagine. Their very blandness forces the imagination into new areas. I mean, one's…
- A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status -- all these in one…
- 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.
- 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…
- A visit to Père Lachaise in Paris adds a year to one's life
- 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.…
- There are some people, who place enormous value on their home and feel that it defines them, that a stain on the carpet is a…
- One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where…
- I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be…
- At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected…
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