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James Graham Ballard fue un escritor inglés de ciencia ficción. Un gran número de sus escritos describen distopías.[1]​ Wikipedia  

✵ 15. noviembre 1930 – 19. abril 2009
J. G. Ballard: 98 citas5 Me gusta

Frases célebres de J. G. Ballard

“Esa imagen de la propia muerte que todos los hombres guardan en un sitio secreto del corazón (lógicamente – pues no hay propósito más sombrío que el de la vida-, uno debería decir todas las mañanas a los amigos. “lamento tu irrevocable muerte”, como si sufrieran de un mal incurable…).”

J. G. Ballard

“Casi todos nosotros hemos tenido la experiencia de deja vu, de haber visto antes todo esto, en verdad, de recordar demasiado bien estos pantanos y lagunas. Los recuerdos biológicos son casi siempre desagradables, ecos de peligros y terrores. Nada dura tanto como el miedo. En toda la naturaleza ves ahora ejemplos de mecanismos liberadores innatos, que han estado dormidos durante miles de generaciones, pero que conservan todo su poder. El ejemplo clásico es el miedo atávico que siente el ratón de campo por el gavilán: basta mostrarle una figura de papel para que se precipite a esconderse. ¿y de que otro modo puedes explicar la repugnancia universal y completamente injustificada que inspiran las arañas, aunque solo una especie pica a sus victimas?¿y el odio que sentimos por las serpientes y reptiles, también sorprendente, pues estos animales no son muy comunes? Solo porque todos llevamos en nosotros mismos un recuerdo oculto del tiempo en que las picaduras de arañas gigantes eran mortales, y los reptiles dominaban el planeta.”

J. G. Ballard

Mundo sumergido (1963)

“Los funerales celebran el cruce de otra frontera, en muchos sentidos el más formal y prolongado de todos.”

J. G. Ballard libro Noches de cocaína

Noches de cocaína (1994)

“Me palmeé los bolsillos buscando un cigarrillo, el mejor antídoto para tanto ejercicio y tanta salud.”

J. G. Ballard libro Noches de cocaína

Noches de cocaína (1994)

“El alcohol mata lentamente, pero no tengo prisa.”

J. G. Ballard

Mundo sumergido (1963)

“El suicida no vuelve nunca a la escena del crimen.”

J. G. Ballard

Mundo sumergido (1963)

Frases de vida de J. G. Ballard

“La vida en el rascacielos comenzaba a parecerse al mundo exterior: la misma crueldad implacable enmascarada por una serie de convenciones corteses.”

J. G. Ballard libro Rascacielos

Rascacielos (1975)

“Una norma de vida: si puedes oler a ajo, todo anda bien.”

J. G. Ballard libro Rascacielos

Rascacielos (1975)

“La vida es en sí misma una especie de enfermedad.”

J. G. Ballard

Hola, América (1981)

J. G. Ballard Frases y Citas

“Primero intentaría matarlo, pero si fallaba lo alimentaría y se daría a él, lo amamantaría devolviéndolo a un primitivo estado infantil y hasta era posible que llegara a tenerle afecto. Luego, en cuanto se durmiese, lo degollaría. La sinopsis del matrimonio ideal.”

J. G. Ballard libro Rascacielos

Rascacielos (1975)

“Y a pesar de la abundante provisión de comics de Batman, la atmósfera es bastante puritana.”

J. G. Ballard

Hola, América (1981)

“Los únicos filósofos auténticos que hoy quedan son los policías.”

J. G. Ballard libro Noches de cocaína

Noches de cocaína (1994)

“La creencia religiosa exige un vasto esfuerzo de compromiso imaginativo y emocional, lo que es bastante difícil si uno todavía esta atontado por las pastillas de la noche anterior.”

J. G. Ballard libro Noches de cocaína

Noches de cocaína (1994)

“El crimen tiene una historia respetable: el Londres de Shakespeare, la Florencia de los Medici. Nidos de asesinatos, venenos y ejecuciones con garrote. Dime una época en que haya florecido el orgullo cívico y las artes y no hubieran crímenes generalizados.”

J. G. Ballard libro Noches de cocaína

Noches de cocaína (1994)

“Todos los siquiatras son incompetentes.”

J. G. Ballard libro Noches de cocaína

Noches de cocaína (1994)

J. G. Ballard: Frases en inglés

“Even the run-down nature of the high-rise was a model of the world into which the future was carrying them, a landscape beyond technology where everything was either derelict or, more ambiguously, recombined in unexpected but more meaningful ways. Laing pondered this — sometimes he found it difficult not to believe that they were living in a future that had already taken place, and was now exhausted.”

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J. G. Ballard libro Rascacielos

Fuente: High-Rise (1975), Ch. 16

“A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.”

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J. G. Ballard

"News from the Sun" in Myths of the Near Future (1982)

“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. This whole notion was advanced by Mary McCarthy and many others years ago, that the main function of the novel was to carry out a kind of moral criticism of life. But the writer has no business making moral judgments or trying to set himself up as a one-man or one-woman magistrate's court. I think it's far better, as Burroughs did and I've tried to do in my small way, to tell the truth.”

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J. G. Ballard

"J.G. Ballard on William S. Burrough's Naked Truth" by Richard Kadrey in Salon (2 September 1997) http://web.archive.org/web/20000511215816/http://www.salon.com/sept97/wsb2970902.html

“Perhaps our own fin-de-siècle decadence takes the form, not of libertarian excess, but of the kind of over-the-top puritanism we see in political correctness and the assorted moral certainties of physical fitness fanatics, New Agers and animal-rights activists.”

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J. G. Ballard

"Back to the Heady Future", review of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, edited by John Clute and Peter Nicholls, originally published in the [London] Daily Telegraph (1993)
A User's Guide to the Millennium (1996)

“The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.”

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J. G. Ballard libro Running Wild

Running Wild (1988)

“Without realizing it, [the architect] had given these people a means of escaping into a new life, and a pattern of social organization that would become the paradigm of all future high-rise blocks.”

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J. G. Ballard libro Rascacielos

Fuente: High-Rise (1975), Ch. 3

“By the time I came to England at the age of sixteen I'd seen a great variety of landscapes. I think the English landscape was the only landscape I'd come across which didn't mean anything, particularly the urban landscape. England seemed to be very dull, because I'd been brought up at a much lower latitude — the same latitude as the places which are my real spiritual home as I sometimes think: Los Angeles and Casablanca. I'm sure this is something one perceives — I mean the angle of light, density of light. I'm always much happier in the south — Spain, Greece — than I am anywhere else. The English one, oddly enough, didn't mean anything. I didn't like it, it seemed odd. England was a place that was totally exhausted.”

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J. G. Ballard

Interviewed by James Goddard and David Pringle (1975)

“I find wholly baffling the widespread belief today that the dropping of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs was an immoral act, even possibly a war crime to rank with Nazi genocide.”

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"The End of My War", originally printed in the [London] Sunday Times (1995)
A User's Guide to the Millennium (1996)

“Science and technology multiple around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.”

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J. G. Ballard libro Crash

"Introduction" to the French edition (1974) of Crash (1973); reprinted in Re/Search no. 8/9 (1984)
Crash (1973)

“At first Laing found something alienating about the concrete landscape of the project — an architecture designed for war, on the unconscious level if no other.”

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J. G. Ballard libro Rascacielos

Fuente: High-Rise (1975), Ch. 1

“For me the intentions of background music are openly political, and an example of how political power is constantly shifting from the ballot box into areas where the voter has nowhere to mark his ballot paper. The most important political choices in the future will probably never be consciously exercised. I'm intrigued by the way some background music is surprisingly aggressive, especially that played on consumer complaint phone lines and banks, airplanes and phone companies themselves, with strident non-rhythmic and arms-length sequences that are definitely not user-friendly.”

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J. G. Ballard

As quoted in Elevator Music (1994) by Joseph Lanza

“After the commonplaces of everyday life, with their muffled dramas, all my organic expertise for dealing with physical injury had long been blunted or forgotten. The crash was the only real experience I had been through for years.”

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J. G. Ballard libro Crash

Crash (1973)

“Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.”

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Conversation http://www.jgballard.ca/interviews/macbeth_interview_1967.html with George MacBeth on Third Programme (BBC) (1 February 1967)], published in The New S.F. (1969), edited by Langdon Jones

“Let the psychotics take over. They alone understood what was happening.”

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J. G. Ballard libro Rascacielos

Fuente: High-Rise (1975), Ch. 15

“After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.”

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J. G. Ballard libro Crash

Crash (1973)

“God was a clever idea … The human race came up with a winner there.”

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J. G. Ballard

The benign catastrophist (2003)

“My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race.”

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J. G. Ballard libro Crash

Crash (1973)

“Art is the principal way in which the human mind has tried to remake the world in a way that makes sense. The carefully edited, slow-motion, action replay of a rugby tackle, a car crash or a sex act has more significance than the original event. Thanks to virtual reality, we will soon be moving into a world where a heightened super-reality will consist entirely of action replays, and reality will therefore be all the more rich and meaningful.”

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J. G. Ballard

"JG Ballard: Theatre of Cruelty" interview by Jean-Paul Coillard in Disturb ezine (1998) https://www.jgballard.ca/media/1998_disturb_magazine.html

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