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Own Quotes by J. G. Ballard
- I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the contents of his…
- Hell is out of fashion - institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the gaps between…
- What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters…
- I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds.
- The functional freedom that anybody can buy a gun and go out and murder a lot of people at a McDonald's is prevalent, yes. But…
- The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events…
- 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,…
- 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…
- I wanted to rub the human race in its own vomit, and force it to look in the mirror.
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov