19 Quotations by J. G. Ballard
- 1. A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, ...
- 2. A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.
- 3. Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of r ...
- 4. Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprun ...
- 5. Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need ...
- 6. Hell is out of fashion -- institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of Twentieth Centu ...
- 7. I believe that organic sex, body against body, skin area against skin area, is becoming no longer po ...
- 8. I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead -- ...
- 9. I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything ...
- 10. In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!
- 11. People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of ...
- 12. Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort de ...
- 13. Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is l ...
- 14. Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in whi ...
- 15. The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its ...
- 16. The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basicall ...
- 17. The marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated Twentieth Century has given birth to an eve ...
- 18. We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind -- mass merchandising, advertising, politics cond ...
- 19. What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in c ...
J. G. Ballard Quotes by Power Quotations
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