"Along with our passivity, we're entering a profoundly masochistic phase everyone is a victim these days, of parents, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, even love itself. And how much we enjoy it. Our happiest moments are spent trying to think up new varieties of victimhood..."

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Source : "Age of Unreason". Interview with Jeannette Baxter, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2004.

J. G. Ballard

#Thinking Quotes #Doctors Quotes #Parent Quotes

“Acting is all about being truthful. I'm really bad at lying. I'm one of the worst liars I know.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I cannot get close to any you.”

Source : Nicole Brossard, Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood (2006). “Mauve Desert”, p.30, Coach House Books
“Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.”
“Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows.”
“What seems tragic now won't even be an issue in a few years time.”
“The price you pay to win is nothing once you've made it!”
“I have funny bones. If there's ever any kind of tension, I'll always be the one to try and be funny to loosen things up.”
“Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much older. Rousseau refers in his Confessions, 1740, to a similar remark, as a well-known saying. Others attribute the remark to the wife of Louis XIV.”

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