“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?
“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
“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
“You can only cruise the boulevards of regret so far, and then you've got to get back up onto the freeway again.”
― Inherent Vice
― Inherent Vice
“I am a socialist, a nihilist, a republican, anything that is anti-reactionary!... I want to turn everything upside down to see what lies beneath; I believe we are so webbed, so horribly regimented, that no spring-cleaning is possible, everything must be burned, blown to bits, and then we can start afresh...”
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