Assassination Quote by J. G. Ballard

“I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead - the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol!”

J. G. Ballard

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I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai.

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Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic.

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