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"In a totally sane society, madness is the only freedom."
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James Graham Ballard was an English novelist and short-story writer, satirist and essayist known for psychologically provocative works of fiction that explore the relations between human psychology, technology, sex and mass media. Ballard first became associated with New Wave science fiction for post-apocalyptic novels such as The Drowned World (1962). He later courted controversy with the short-s
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"I wanted to rub the human face in its own vomit and force it to look in the mirror."
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"The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime."
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"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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"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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"A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction."
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