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J. G. Ballard Quotes

J. G. Ballard quotes about humanity

British Author November 18, 1930 – April 19, 2009

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A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status -- all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing). J. G. Ballard
The twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary association of enlightened citizens has died forever. We realize how suffocatingly humane we've become, dedicated to moderation and the middle way. The suburbanization of the soul has overrun our planet like the plague. J. G. Ballard
I guessed that he was one of those ambitious young physicians who more and more fill the profession, opportunists with a fashionable hoodlum image, openly hostile to their patients. My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race. J. G. Ballard
In his mind World War III represents the final self-destruction and imbalance of an asymmetric world, the last suicidal spasm of the dextro-rotatory helix, DNA. The human organism is an atrocity exhibition at which he is an unwilling spectator . . . J. G. Ballard
J. G. Ballard quote: "I wanted to rub the human face in its own vomit, and force it..."
I wanted to rub the human face in its own vomit, and force it to look in the mirror. J. G. Ballard
J. G. Ballard quote: "The human race sleepwalked to oblivion, thinking only of the..."
The human race sleepwalked to oblivion, thinking only of the corporate logos on it's shroud. J. G. Ballard

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