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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 4h

I suppose World War II was the last fling, but since then aviation is just Skytrain, which lacks any sort of imaginative dimension whatever.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 12h

In many ways Warhol is the Walt Disney of the amphetamine age.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 20h

Forty years after seeing Sunset Boulevard, I at last swam in a Hollywood pool.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My perfect beach is in the south of France at a place called Roquebrune, which lies between Menton and Monte Carlo.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Those films that I most admire -- Cocteau's Orphee, Alphaville, Marienbad, Point Blank, Blue Velvet -- are much closer to dreams than they are movies.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

People are searching for truth through trying to shock, although it may sometimes be an artificial truth that they find.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Tony Blair strikes me as a dangerous man, a would-be Messiah with a pocketful of nails, searching for a cross to die on.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The candlelight flickered over the silver cutlery and gold plate, reflected in the silk facings of his dinner jacket.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Al Qaeda terrorists despise, not envy America, and no coward could fly an aircraft into the side of a skyscraper or carrier.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was trying to analyze the formulas of the world we live in.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It provided some of the most potent metaphors that human beings have ever responded to.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Car crashes mean for him what bull-fights mean for everyone else -- sex and death.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Faber Book of Utopias, edited by John Carey, is the perfect beach read, an anthology of paradise visions from Plato to Aldous Huxley and George Orwell.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One senses that they are frightened to leave, aware that the headless man with a machine-gun is waiting for them in a quiet park not too far away.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The constants of our lives, which most of us ignore: the wonder of existence.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think the whole of history over the last two or three hundred years has been the harnessing of machines, and of technological systems, to various human activities: to transport, to agriculture, to industry, and so forth.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

After Freud's exploration within the psyche, it is now the outer world of reality which must be quantified and eroticized.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Private schools are brainwashing their children into a kind of social docility, turning them into a professional class who will run the show for consumer capitalism.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Finnegans Wake is the best example of modernism disappearing up its own fundament.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Time, like a film reel running through a faulty projector, was moving at an erratic pace, at moments backing up and almost coming to a halt.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

From Michelangelo, through Shakespeare, Newton, Beethoven, Goethe, Darwin, Freud and Einstein there's always been a living genius.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Film is a secular religion; great stars are the presiding priesthood.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Maybe we're going to live in an eventless future.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

People have no loyalties anymore.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When you see the truth about human beings it's beneficial -- but very challenging.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think the prosperity in the '60s and '70s induced a kind of infantilism.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Imagination is the shortest route between any two conceivable points, and more than equal to any physical rearrangement of the brain's functions.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Are you allowed to enjoy those?

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Applying Freud's principle, we can see that reason safely rationalizes reality for us.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am much closer to the Surrealists, in that I employ a traditional narrative space, in whose illusions I completely believe, while at the same time stretching the imaginative demands made on the reader by an extreme subject matter.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It isn't often that one reads a book and is convinced that it's an instant classic, but I'm sure that lain Sinclair's London Orbital will be read 50 years from now.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Contrary to general belief, no one's death diminishes us.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The story (which the literary novel has neglected, to its cost) is everything.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They've witnessed the evolution of an adult human being from nothing.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sheppard gazed for hours through his stop-frame focus, as if he would find among these images an anatomical door, one of the keys in a combination whose other tumblers were the Marey chronograms, the Surrealist paintings and the drained swimming pool in the ever-brighter sunlight outside.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On that border zone, you're neither one nor the other, you're both.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The artists sculpting their clouds, etc.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When the most famous lamb in history emerged into the world in 1996, she brought with her a host of ethical and scientific dilemmas.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And it inspired at least one great work of literature -- Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

He merely readjusts reality to suit himself.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I had an opening party to which I invited a large number of art critics and members of the demimonde.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My stories, in the sense of the narrative sequence of events,

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One should face up to the realities of human nature.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

People were breaking the bottles of red wine over the cars, smashing the glasses, grabbing the topless girl and dragging her into the back of one of the cars.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Celebrity and the media presence of the artists today are inextricably linked with their work.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We have to make sure that our supplies of vaccine are up-to-date.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In the camp, we weren't certain that the war had ended.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In this country the coffin lid is not open; death is factored out of our lives.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I've always operated on the fringe -- a complete maverick.

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