J. G. Ballard Quotes - Page 3

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

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  Magic

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• I work for three or four hours a day, in the late morning and early afternoon. Then I go out for a walk and come back in time for a large gin and tonic.

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  Morning, Three, Afternoon

  "Writers' rooms: JG Ballard" by JG Ballard, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2007.

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• Films, like memories, seem to re-shoot themselves over the years, reflecting our latest needs and obsessions. In many cases they can change completely, and reveal unexpected depths and shallows. Will Four Weddings and a Funeral be seen one day as a vicious social satire? Could Jaws become as tearful and sentimental as Bambi?

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  Memories, Years, Funeral

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• Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica.

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  Sleep, Eight, Hours

  J. G. Ballard (2014). “The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard”, p.23, Holt Paperbacks

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• It seems to me that what most of us have to fear for the future is not that something terrible is going to happen, but rather that nothing is going to happen... I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is boring. The future is going to be boring.

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  Boring, Terrible, Happens

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• Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire.

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  Memories, Blood, Desire

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• The ultimate concept car will move so fast, even at rest, as to be invisible.

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  Moving, Car, Invisible

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• The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime.

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  Self, Regimes, Paranoid

  "A User's Guide to the Millennium". Book by J. G. Ballard, 1996.

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• I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.

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  Doors, Imagination, Mind

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• Nudity in photography, whether involving adults or children, is a subject sinking under a freight of political and moral disapproval it could never hope to support, and this is not the place for me to get out the bilge pump. I will only say that critics who tremble so fiercely at the thought of the voyeuristic male gaze miss the point that distance generates mystery and enchantment, and expresses the awe with which the male imagination regards all women.

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  Photography, Children, Distance

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• The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

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  People, Imagination, Fiction

  "Strange fiction". Interview With James Campbell, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2008.

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• All you do is get on and start pedaling . . .

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• Fiction is a branch of neurology

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  Fiction, Branches, Neurology

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• Everywhere - all over Africa and South America - you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There's a certain sort of logic leading towards these immaculate suburbs. And they're terrifying, because they are the death of the soul. This is the prison this planet is being turned into.

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  America, People, Soul

  October 30, 1982 Interview, Re/Search, No. 8/9, 1984.

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• A visit to Père Lachaise in Paris adds a year to one's life

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  Years, Paris, Add

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• Hell is out of fashion - institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the gaps between the bars are the sutures of one's own skull. A valid hell is one from which there is a possibility of redemption, even if this is never achieved, the dungeons of an architecture of grace whose spires point to some kind of heaven. The institutional hells of the present century are reached with one-way tickets, marked Nagasaki and Buchenwald, worlds of terminal horror even more final than the grave.

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  Fashion, Skulls, Heaven

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• People, particularly over-moralistic Americans, have often seen me as a pessimist and humourless to boot, yet I think I have an almost maniacal sense of humour. The problem is that it's rather deadpan.

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  Thinking, People, Boots

  "Age of Unreason". Interview with Jeannette Baxter, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2004.

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• The car as we know it is on the way out.

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  Car, Way, Remorseless

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• Au revoir, jewelled alligators and white hotels, hallucinatory forests, farewell.

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  Farewell, White, Forests

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• They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never dissapointed.

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  Self, Rapids, Involvement

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• The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

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  Time, Greatest Movie, Events

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• All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in their own right. The past, whether Renaissance Italy or Ancient Egypt, is re-assimilated and homogenized into its most digestible form. Desperate for the new, but disappointed with anything but the familiar, we recolonize past and future. The same trend can be seen in personal relationships, in the way people are expected to package themselves, their emotions and sexuality, in attractive and instantly appealing forms.

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  Past, Egypt, Museums

  "The Atrocity Exhibition". Book by J. G. Ballard, 1970.

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• Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.

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  Writing, Thinking, Frustrated

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• The human race sleepwalked to oblivion, thinking only of the corporate logos on it's shroud.

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  Thinking, Race, Logos

  J. G. Ballard (2006). “Kingdom Come”, HarperCollins UK

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• Across the communication landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy.

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  Dream, Moving, Communication

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