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The uneasy marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an increasingly surreal world.

— J. G. Ballard

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The high-rise was a huge machine designed to serve, not the collective body of tenants, but the individual resident in isolation.

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My novels offer an extreme hypothesis which future events may disprove — or confirm. They're in the nature of long-range weather forecasts.

I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds.

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

In the future, violence would clearly become a valuable form of social cement.

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