Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at…

Quote by J G Ballard

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I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have...

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In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have...