J. G. Ballard Quotes

The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It's a vast, sentimentalizing structure that reassures the reader, and at every point, offers the comfort of secure moral frameworks and recognizable characters.

J. G. Ballard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: November 15, 1930 - April 19, 2009

Topics

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You can't give away points and games against someone like Murray. You're not going to make it to the top with that kind of effort.

John McEnroe

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The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.

Robert Hughes

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People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world.

Spike Lee

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iTunes kind of feels like Sam Goody to me. I don't feel cool when I go there. I'm tired of seeing John Mayer's face pop up.

Trent Reznor

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Hate is contagious. A few seconds after Donald Trump has told me something hateful, somebody else repeats it. He has legitimized what people only dare say in their kitchens and bedrooms.

Jorge Ramos

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The biggest musical influence on me was my mum. We were both enraptured by music.

Johnny Marr

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And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don't like that.

Donna Leon

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If I weren't fighting, I'd be in the business world.

Chuck Liddell

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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

Sydney J. Harris

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A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.

Susan Cain

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Stepping back, just being in my little Stoicism Susan bubble, if what people know you for is bringing light to an issue about bad behavior, about bad stuff going on and laws not being followed and people being treated inappropriately, why wouldn't I want that? That's a badge of honor.

Susan Fowler

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I'm trying my best with what I want to do, which is modelling. I think I'm on my own career path, and I don't really care what other people have to say about me being in the spotlight of my sisters. I'm just doing my own thing.

Kendall Jenner

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