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J G Ballard : What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths. # Automobiles # Death and Dying # Elegance

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Yoshida Shoin : " If the plan [to intercept the shogunate emissary to the Kyoto court] is to be carried out, it can only be done with men from the grass roots. To wear silk brocades, eat dainty food, hug beautiful women, and fondle darling children are the only things hereditary officials care about. To revere the emperor and expel the barbarian is no concern of theirs. If this time it should be my misfortune to die, may my death inspire at least one or two men of steadfast will to rise up and uphold this principle after my death. " # Automobiles # Death and Dying # Elegance

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Coco Chanel : " Elegance is refusal. " # Automobiles # Death and Dying # Elegance

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French Proverb : " Nothing is more elegant than ready money! " # Automobiles # Death and Dying # Elegance

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Yves Saint-Laurent : " We must never confuse elegance with snobbery. " # Automobiles # Death and Dying # Elegance

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Coco Chanel : " Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress. " # Automobiles # Death and Dying # Elegance

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Oliver Wendell Holmes : " Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance. " # Automobiles # Death and Dying # Elegance

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Salvador Dalí : " What is an elegant woman? An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and who has no hair under her arms. " # Automobiles # Death and Dying # Elegance

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Vivienne Westwood : " It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity. " # Automobiles # Death and Dying # Elegance

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Stuart Seaton : " The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity. " # Automobiles # Death and Dying # Elegance

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Christian Lacroix : " For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is. " # Automobiles # Death and Dying # Elegance

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J G Ballard: " In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!" # Madness # Freedom # Insanity

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J G Ballard: " We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind -- mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the preempting of any free or original imaginative response to experience by the television screen. We live inside an enormous novel. For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality." # Fiction # Television # Writers and Writing

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J G Ballard: " I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul." # The future # Freedom # Power

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J G Ballard: " A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status -- all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing)." # Accidents # Freedom # Power

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J G Ballard: " The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam..." # America # Freedom # Power

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J G Ballard: " Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future." # Arts and Artists # The future # Fame

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J G Ballard: " I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead -- the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol!" # Assassination # Love # Work

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J G Ballard: " The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine, it enshrines a basically old-fashioned idea: freedom. In terms of pollution, noise and human life, the price of that freedom may be high, but perhaps the car, by the very muddle and confusion it causes, may be holding back the remorseless spread of the regimented, electronic society." # Automobiles # Freedom # Ideas

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J G Ballard: " What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths." # Automobiles # Death and Dying # Elegance

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J G Ballard: " A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction." # Pornography # Taste # Nature

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