"Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century."

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Source : "Fictions of Every Kind" (1971)

J. G. Ballard

#Reality Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Literature Quotes

“You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder.”
“I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.”
“We cannot control what others do to us, but through God we can control the way we respond to them.”
“The average person's short-term memory can hold only five to seven bits of data at any one moment. If you put more items in, others fall out. The older you are, the more you have crammed into those memory circuits. Twenty-five-year-olds can remember things because they still have empty space. Some of us take our children to the supermarket in the hope they will remember why we are there.”

Source : Jennifer James (2012). “Thinking In The Future Tense”, p.27, Simon and Schuster
“There comes a point at which a law can be so unjust it is necessary openly, lovingly and with a willingness to accept the consequences to refuse to comply with a greatly unjust law.”
“If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry.”
“"Science," of course, replaced "God" as a guiding concept for many people after Darwin. Or, really, the two were rolled up into a sticky ball. To some degree this was mindless worship of a miracle future, the pursuit of which has landed us in the fix we now inhabit.”
“I think most teen comedies are probably played in a way that aren't geared towards people that are wanting to be entertained but also [see] something that has a lot of heart to it. The things we do in the movie - it has a lot of heart, and also it's really smart. The people and the characters that we are, we're really intelligent people that are using our tactics to get back at a guy. The moral of being who you are, and trusting yourself, finding your inner strength - I think that's something that most teen movies don't really dial into.”

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