J. G. Ballard Quotes
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.
J. G. Ballard
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
Salvatore Quasimodo
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
Ikue Mori
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'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
Ian Anthony Dale
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
Dana Brunetti
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
Ingrid Betancourt
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
Yoko Ono
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In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.
Katherine Boo
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[London is] like the sight of a heavy sea from a rowing boat in the middle of the Atlantic.... One lives in it, afloat but half submerged in a heavy flood of brick, stone, asphalt, slate, steel, glass, concrete, and tarmac, seeing nothing fixable beyond a few score white spires that splash up like spits of foam above the next glum wave of dirty buildings.
V. S. Pritchett
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One of the great advantages of the study of old Norse or Icelandic literature is the insight given by it into the origin of world-wide superstitions. Norse tradition is transparent as glacier ice, and its origin is as unmistakable.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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I would say that we all - in whatever world we're in, whatever your occupation is, we all have a path to walk. We all have struggles.
Benjamin Watson
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World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy.
Ken Livingstone
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In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.
J. G. Ballard