"Everywhere--all over Africa and South America . . . you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There's a certain sort of logic leading towards these immaculate suburbs. And they're terrifying, because they are the death of the soul. . . . This is the prison this planet is being turned into."

-- J. G. Ballard

#America Quotes #People Quotes #Soul Quotes

“Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.”
“A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.”

Source : "Course in General Linguistics" by Ferdinand de Saussure, edited by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, translated by Wade Baskin, New York : Philosophical Library, (p. 120), 1959.
“I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been so dogged out in the media, they're just extra sensitive.”
“Aging has brought me greater liberty in fiction. When I was young I was harder on myself. I wrote with an idea of absolute seriousness.”

Source : Source: wordswithoutborders.org
“Of course the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. Why do you think the neighbors put up the fence?”
“My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in.”
“Being a reporter took me out of myself and that shaped me as a writer.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Philosophy teaches how man thinks he thinks; but drinking shows how he really thinks.”

Source : Rene Daumal (2003). “A Night of Serious Drinking”, p.55, The Overlook Press

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