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Quotes from The benign catastrophist — J. G. Ballard

1930–2009 England

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God was a clever idea … The human race came up with a winner there.

The benign catastrophist (2003)

In wartime Shanghai I saw so many horrors … Civilised life is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is, we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us.

The benign catastrophist (2003)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: J. G. Ballard (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.