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J. G. Ballard Quotes

J. G. Ballard quotes about thinking

British Author November 18, 1930 – April 19, 2009

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A lifetime's experience urges me to utter a warning cry: do anything else, take someone's golden retriever for a walk, run away with a saxophone player. Perhaps what's wrong with being a writer is that one can't even say 'good luck'--luck plays no part in the writing of a novel. No happy accidents as with the paint pot or chisel. I don't think you can say anything, really. I've always wanted to juggle and ride a unicycle, but I dare say if I ever asked the advice of an acrobat he would... J. G. Ballard
The Chinese enjoyed the grim spectacle of death, Jim had decided, as a way of reminding themselves of how precariously they were alive. They liked to be cruel for the same reason, to remind themselves of the vanity of thinking that the world was anything else. J. G. Ballard
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute. 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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