J. G. Ballard Quotes
Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?
Quotes to Explore
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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Every sport has its own cast of characters.
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Love is the one wild card.
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Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
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I still have nightmares about taking tests.
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I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
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I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.
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As soon as I get home, all I want to eat is seafood.
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Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
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I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.
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I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game.
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I learnt circus skills in drama group, so I can juggle.
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I was a horrible student.
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Like any actor, I want to be able to have a long career and show different characters and a range.
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Loving Your Enemies... Far from being the pious injunction of a utopian dreamer, this demand is an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization. Yes it is love that will save our world and civilization; love even for our enemies.
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Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn him from the glaring fact.
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I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
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Even the toughest people have a backstory, and villains don't feel like they're the bad guys.
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It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.
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Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?
