“It was impossible to expect a moral awakening from humankind itself, just like it was impossible to expect humans to lift off the earth by pulling up on their own hair. To achieve moral awakening required a force outside the human race.”
― The Three-Body Problem
― The Three-Body Problem
“The word "avant-garde," for example, despite its note of impartiality, generally serves to dismiss-as though by a shrug of the shoulders-any work that risks giving a bad conscience to the literature of mass consumption.”
― For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction
― For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction
“A literatura é um processo de libertação e, por conseguinte, aspira à liberdade. Quer dizer que o seu ponto de partida é uma recusa aos constrangimentos. Quer dizer, ainda, que os constrangimentos estão na sua génese ou no desencadear da sua explosão, como tem sido proclamado por tantos criadores.”
― Jornal Sem Data
― Jornal Sem Data
“The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.”
― J.G. Ballard: Quotes: Does the Future Have a Future?
― J.G. Ballard: Quotes: Does the Future Have a Future?
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