J. G. Ballard Quotes
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 of their deaths.
Quotes to Explore
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.
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I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.
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In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
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The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
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When things are a disappointment, try not to be so discouraged.
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I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination.
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For me as a person, friendships are incredibly important to me, but in writing, they can distract me.
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She was darkness and he was darkness and there had never been anything before this time, only darkness and his lips upon her. She tried to speak and his mouth was over hers again. Suddenly she had a wild thrill such as she had never known; joy, fear, madness, excitement, surrender to arms that were too strong, lips too bruising, fate that moved too fast.
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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 of their deaths.
